. Historical portraits ... the lives of Fletcher .. . ^ other letters in answer to critics. In 1693 he produced hisThoughts concerning Education. Numerous controversial writingsof his also belong to this period. Two 3ears previously he had goneto live with Lady Masham, daughter of the philosopher Cudworth,in whose house he was affectionately cared for until his death. Hishealth was alreadj failing, and on this ground he had refused theKings urgent request that he would accept a foreign , his advice was much sought both hy William and his. B^^S. W Sfw%>W^i^V^. ? I
. Historical portraits ... the lives of Fletcher .. . ^ other letters in answer to critics. In 1693 he produced hisThoughts concerning Education. Numerous controversial writingsof his also belong to this period. Two 3ears previously he had goneto live with Lady Masham, daughter of the philosopher Cudworth,in whose house he was affectionately cared for until his death. Hishealth was alreadj failing, and on this ground he had refused theKings urgent request that he would accept a foreign , his advice was much sought both hy William and his. B^^S. W Sfw%>W^i^V^. ? I I >i 1 N ; .1)( I \ I - . • »?••• JOHN LOCKEFrom the portrait by T. Brownovcr in llie Nalioiial Portrait Gallery Facf p. 2 JO JOHN LOCKE 271 ministers, Somers and Halifax, who applied to the currencj- crisis in1695 the views which Locke had just set forth with great abilitj- intwo economic pamphlets. As a recognition he was made a Com-missioner of Trade, but he retired from this post in 1700, to live thelast years of his life in quiet enjoyment of his friendships withNewton, Peter King, his nephew and adopted son, and the Mashamfamil}. His strength ebbed slowly, and he died peacefully onOctober 28, 1704. Locke, in his treatment of metaphysical problems from thepoint of view of common sense, stands out as a typicall3- Englishphilosopher. B3 developing systematically the empiricism latent inHobbess teaching, he founded one of the two antagonistic schoolsof eighteenth-century thought. He was wanting in the relentlesslogic, as in the subtlety of
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