OF JOHN LOCKE, WITH EXTRACTS FROM HIS CORRESPONDENCE, JOURNALS, AND COMMON-PLACE BOOKS. BY LORD KING. LITERIS INNUTRITUS, EOUSQUE TANTUM PROFECI UT VERITATI UNICE LITAREM. NEW EDITION. WITH CONSIDERABLE ADDITIONS. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. II. TVIMITY SCHOOL LIBRARY. LONDON: 7) UNIVERSITY HENRY COLBURN AND RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET. 17.455 4814.9 kste 1.2 cop. I THE LIFE OF JOHN LOCСКЕ. THE state of the coin had for a long time very much engaged Locke's attention; the first of his treatises upon that subject was published in 1691, and the farther consideration in 1695, for the purpose of correcting the false ideas then universally prevalent. Whenever there is considerable distress in the public affairs, if trade is embarrassed, if the currency is disordered, if the finances are deranged, there are always to be found men, who from ignorance or interest, are ready to recommend what they are pleased to call the easy, practical, and natural remedies, which in the end generally aggravate the evils they were supposed to cure. Under a despotic Govern |