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SIR,

Mr. Locke to Dr. Molyneux.

Oates, Jan. 25, 169.

I HAVE been slower in returning you my thanks for the favour of your letter of the 26th of November, and the civilities you express to me in it, than perhaps I should have been. But the truth is, my thoughts never look towards Dublin now, without casting such a cloud upon my mind, and laying such a load of fresh sorrow on me for the loss of my dear friend, your brother, that I cannot without displeasure turn them that way; and when I do it I find myself very unfit for conversation and the entertainment of a friend. It is therefore not without pain that I bring myself to write you a scurvy letter. What there wants in it of expression, you must make up out of the esteem I have for the memory of our common friend; and I desire you not to think my respects to you less, because the loss of your brother makes me not able to speak them as I would.

Since you are pleased to put such a value on my trifles, I have given order to Mr. Churchill to send you my last reply to the bishop of Worcester, and the last edition of my treatise of Education, which came forth since Mr. Molyneux's death. I send this with the more confidence to you, because your brother told me more than once that he followed the method I therein offer to the world, in the breeding of his son. I wish you may find it fit to be continued to him, and useful to you in his education; for I cannot but be mightily concerned for the son of such a father, and wish that he may grow up into that esteem and character, which his father left behind him amongst all good men who knew him. As for my Essay concerning Human Understanding, it is now out of print, and if it were not, I think I should make you but an ill compliment in sending it you less perfect than I design it should be in the next edition, in which I shall make many additions to it and when it is as perfect as I can

sent.

make it, I know not whether in sending it you I shall not load you with a troublesome and useless preBut since by desiring it you seem to promise me your acceptance, I shall as soon as it is reprinted take the liberty to thrust it into your study. I am,

Sir,

Your most humble and faithful servant,
JOHN LOCKE.

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190

Dancing, useful to be learned
early,
Diet what best for children,
14, 15

Disposition of children should
be observed in their learning,
61, 62
Dispute, over-great earnestness
in it should be avoided,

140, 141
Dissenters, censured for their
inconsistency,
429

Dominion, wherein children's
aiming at it first appears,

93, 94
how children's incli-
nations to it should be re-
strained,
ibid. &c.
Drawing, some skill in it neces-

sary for a gentleman, 150
Drink, taking of it cold, when
the body is hot, very danger-
12, 18

ous,

of children, should be
only small beer,

18

-, much drinking, espe-
cially of strong liquors, causes
thirst,
18, 19

E.

Eagerness, the indecency of it

32, 33

in disputing,

complied with,
how to restrain it,

94, &c.
how this restraining is
323

to be understood,

139, &c.

Education of children, has a
great influence upon their
whole life,

6

a diligent and early

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Hardiness, children should be
early inured to it,
110
Health of the body, necessary
to a happy state in this world, 6
how care should be
taken of it in educating chil-
7, &c.

dren,
History, how young persons
should be entered into it, 175

I.

Interruption of one speaking, a
branch of rudeness, 139

Justice, how children should be
inured to practise it, 101

L.

Lambert, (major-general) his
attempt to seize sir Anthony
Ashley Cooper disappointed,
276
Languages better learned by
use, than by a multitude of
rules,
152, &c.
Latin tongue, much time ill
spent in learning it, ibid.
how it may be
easily attained,
ibid.
Law, (of one's country) how
young men should learn it, 177
Learning, more ado than should
be is made about it, in edu-
cating children, 142, &c.
should be made a
sport to children, from the
first,
143

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