1678

Contents:

Weather diary

Relation, Space (January 20)

Memory, Imagination, Madnesse (January 22)

Prejudice, Discourse (January 23)

Space (January 24)

Methode pour bien etudier la doctrine de Mr de Cartes (March 7)

Scrupulosity (March 20)

Atlantis (March 31, April 2, May 26, July 15)

Toleration (April 19)

Law (April 21)

Books of mine put into the box marked C.B No 1 [etc.] (June 30)

Translations from Nicole [mid-year]

Bruta sentiunt (July 12)

Lex naturae (July 15)

Infinitum (July 16)

Modes complex (August 25)

Vertue, Atheists (August 26)

Happynesse (October 1)

An essay on recreation (December)

Scrupulosity (December 2)

Credit, Disgrace (December 12)

Weather diary

See   description under 1666.

Relation, Space   (1678 January 20)

Location:   Bodleian Library, MS. Locke f. 3, pp. 5-16.

Description:   An entry in Locke’s journal dated 20 January 1678, with marginal captions “Relation” (on pages 5 and 6) and “Space” (on pages 6, 8, 10, 12, 14 and 16).

Publications:

1. The life of John Locke : with extracts from his correspondence, journals and common-place books / by Lord King. – London : H. Colburn, 1829. – p. 338-341 in 1864 ed.
2. An early draft of Locke’s Essay : together with excerpts from his journals / edited by R.I. Aaron and Jocelyn Gibb. – Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1936. – p. 99-103. [Locke #932]

Discussions:   G. Bonno, Les relations intellectuelles de Locke avec la France (1955), pp. 95-96.

Memory, Imagination, Madnesse   (1678 January 22)

Location:   Bodleian Library, MS. Locke f. 3, pp. 16-21.

Description:   A journal entry dated 22 January 1678, with several marginal captions: “Memory” (page 16), “Imagination” (page 17) and “Madnesse” (pages 19 and 20).

Publications:

1. The life of John Locke : with extracts from his correspondence, journals and common-place books / by Lord King. – London : H. Colburn, 1829. – p. 333-335 in 1864 ed.
2. An early draft of Locke’s Essay : together with excerpts from his journals / edited by R.I. Aaron and Jocelyn Gibb. – Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1936. – p. 103-105. [Locke #932]

Prejudice, Discourse   (1678 January 23)

Location:   Bodleian Library, MS. Locke f. 3, pp. 21-22.

Description:   An entry in Locke’s journal dated 23 January 1678, with the marginal captions “Prejudice” and “Discourse” and initialed at the end. The note is based on Locke’s reading of Jean D’Espagne, Les erreurs populaires (1643) [H&L 1066].

Publications:

1. [part only?] Locke on war and peace / by Richard H. Cox. – Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1960. – p. 32.

Space   (1678 January 24)

Location:   Bodleian Library, MS. Locke f. 3, pp. 24-25.

Description:   An entry in Locke’s journal dated 24 January 1678, with the marginal caption “Space”.

Publications:

1. An early draft of Locke’s Essay : together with excerpts from his journals / edited by R.I. Aaron and Jocelyn Gibb. – Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1936. – p. 105. [Locke #932]

Discussions:   G. Bonno, Les relations intellectuelles de Locke avec la France (1955), pp. 95-96.

“Methode pour bien etudier la doctrine de Mr de Cartes”   (1678 March 7)

Location:   Bodleian Library, MS. Locke f. 3, pp. 49-60.

Description:   An entry in Locke’s journal dated 7 March 1678, with the title “Methode pour bien etudier la doctrine de Mr de Cartes.” It also has marginal captions “Cartesian philosophie” (page 49), “Cartesian” (pages 50 and 52) and “Cartesianisme” (pages 54, 56, 58 and 60). The text is in French and includes a catalogue of “tous les livres qui ont esté escrits pour et contre la Doctrine de Des Cartes” (pages 58-60).

Publications:

1. An early draft of Locke’s Essay : together with excerpts from his journals / edited by R.I. Aaron and Jocelyn Gibb. – Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1936. – p. 105-111. [Locke #932]

Scrupulosity   (1678 March 20)

Location:   Bodleian Library, MS. Locke f. 3, pp. 69-79.

Description:   An entry in Locke’s journal dated 20 March 1678, with the marginal captions “Scrupulos” (page 69) and “Scrupulosity” (page 70). The entry is the draft for a letter to Denis Grenville.

Two other versions exist: Locke’s letter of 13/23 March 1678 is in Bodleian Library, MS. Rawlinson D. 849, ff. 148-149; a copy of the letter exists in the British Library, Add. MS. 4290, ff. 109-114.

Publications:

1. [MS. Locke:] The life of John Locke : with extracts from his correspondence, journals and common-place books / by Lord King. – London : H. Colburn, 1829. – pp. 109-113.
2. [British Library MS:] The life of John Locke / by H.R. Fox Bourne. – London : H.S. King ; New York : Harper, 1876. – vol. 1:390-393.
3. [Locke’s letter:] The correspondence of John Locke / edited by E.S. de Beer. – Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1976-89. – vol. 1:555-560 [Locke #847, letter 374]
4. [From De Beer:] Selected correspondence / John Locke ; edited by Mark Goldie from the Clarendon edition by E.S. de Beer. – Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2002. – pp. 65-68. [Locke #847+]

Discussions:   De Beer, publication #3 above, p. 555-556.

Atlantis   (1678 March 31, April 2, May 26, July 15)

See   description under 1676

Toleration   (1678 April 19)

Location:   Bodleian Library, MS. Locke f. 3, p. 107.

Description:   An entry in Locke’s journal dated 19 April 1678, with the marginal caption “Toleration.” Goldie gives it the titles “Toleration C” (1997) and “Toleration in Israel” (2010) to distinguish it from notes from c. 1675, the journal entry for 23 August 1676, and “Toleratio” [1679?].

Publications:

1. Political essays / Locke ; edited by Mark Goldie. – Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1997. – p. 269. [Locke #867+]
2. A letter concerning toleration and other writings / John Locke ; edited and with an introduction by Mark Goldie. – Indianapolis : Liberty Fund, ©2010. – p. 171 [Locke #67B].

Discussions:   Goldie, publication #1, p. 269; Goldie, publication #2, p. xxxviii.

Law   (1678 April 21)

Location:   Bodleian Library, MS. Locke f. 3, pp. 111-112.

Description:   An entry in Locke’s journal dated 21 April 1678, with the marginal caption “Law.”

Publications:

1. The life of John Locke : with extracts from his correspondence, journals and common-place books / by Lord King. – London : H. Colburn, 1829. – p. 116; London : H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1830. – vol. 1:217 [misdated].
2. Political writings / John Locke ; edited and with an introduction by David Wootton. – London ; New York : Penguin Books, 1993. – p. 236. [Locke #867+]
3. Political essays / Locke ; edited by Mark Goldie. – Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1997. – p. 269. [Locke #867+]

Discussions:   Goldie, publication #3 above, p. 269.

Books of mine put into the box marked C.B No 1 [etc.]   (1679 June 30)

Location:   Bodleian Library, MS. Locke f. 3, ff. 172-183;
copy in MS. Locke b. 2, pp. 6-7.

Description:   An entry in Locke’s journal dated 30 June 1678, with the heading “Books of mine put into the box marked C.B. No 1 [etc.]” (there were five boxes in all). The books were stored in Paris while Locke and his pupil, Caleb Banks, travelled to the south of France.

There is a copy of this list in MS. Locke b. 2, headed “A Catalogue of M^r Banks’s books and mine put into boxes Jul. 78”; endorsed by Locke “Libri Jul 78” and “A catalogue of my books left at Paris 78” The manuscript is written on a single sheet, folded to form 4 pages, 383 × 265 mm.

Publications:

1. “Locke’s reading during his stay in France (1675-79)” / by John Lough. // IN: The Library. – 5th series:8 (1953): 229-258. – p. 244-246.

Translations from Nicole’s Essais de morale   [mid-1678?]

Location:   Pierpont Morgan Library, MA 232.

Description:   Locke translated three of Pierre Nicole’s Essais de morale during his stay in France, probably sometime between late 1676 and April 1679. Sometime “shortly after mid-1678” [Yolton], he carefully copied the text into a small volume, together with a dedication “To the Right Hon:^ble Margaret Countesse of Shaftesbury” to whom he presented the volume as a souvenir of his trip to France.

The volume is a small octavo, made up of 25 quires, signed and paginated by Locke. It is bound in gold-tooled black morocco, with gilt edging, and two metal clasps. The dedication occupies seven unnumbered pages. The first discourse (“conteining in short the naturall proof of the Existence of a God, & the immortality of the Soule”) is on pp. 1-34; the second discourse (“of the Weaknesse of Man”) is on pp. 35-140; andthe third discourse (“concerneing the way of preserving peace with men”) is in two parts on pp. 141-363 and 365-477.

8^o. 130 × 90 mm. A-Z⁸. Pages viii, 477 [with some errors].

A microfilm copy is available in the Bodleian Library (MS. Film 70).

Publications:

1. Discourses on the being of a God, and the immortality of the soul; of the weakness of man; and concerning the way of preserving peace with men: being some essays written in French by Messieurs du Port Royal. Render’d into English by the late John Lock, Gent. London: printed and sold by J. Downing, 1712. [4], 252 p. 12^o. [Locke #784]
2. Discourses translated from Nicole’s Essays / by John Locke ; with important variations from the original French ; now first printed from the autograph of the translator in the possession of Thomas Hancock, M.D. – London : printed for Harvey and Darton, 1828. – xxvi, 239 p. [Locke #785]
3. John Locke as translator : three of the Essais of Pierre Nicole in French and English / edited by Jean S. Yolton. – Oxford : Voltaire Foundation, 2000. – xix, 266 p. – (Studies on Voltaire and the eighteenth century ; 2000:07) [Locke #785A]
4. [Quotations:] “Extracts from an unpublished autograph of Locke” / S.W. // IN: Christian observer. –18 (1819):69-76. – Describes Locke’s manuscript ; includes quotations.
5. [Quotations (from #2 above):] The life of John Locke / by H.R. Fox Bourne. – London : H.S. King ; New York : Harper, 1876. – vol. 1:296-297.

Discussions:   Publication #4 above; Von Leyden, “Locke and Nicole” (1948); Ayers, “Locke’s translations from Nicole’s Essais : the real first edition” (1980); J. S. Yolton, “A note on the manuscript of Locke’s translation of Nicole’s Essais de morale” (1980); J. W. Yolton, Foreward to publication #3 above; J. S. Yolton, Introduction to publication #3 above.

Bruta sentiunt   (1678 July 12)

Location:   Bodleian Library, MS. Locke f. 3, p. 193.

Description:   A short entry in Locke’s journal dated 12 July 1678, with the marginal caption “Bruta sentiunt.”

Publications:

1. John Locke (1632-1704), physician and philosopher : a medical biography : with an edition of the medical notes in his journals / by Kenneth Dewhurst. – London : Wellcome Historical Medical Library, 1963. – p. 130.

Lex, Lex naturae   (1678 July 15)

Location:   Bodleian Library, MS. Locke f. 3, pp. 201-202.

Description:   An entry in Locke’s journal dated 15 July 1678, headed “Lex triplex” and with the marginal captions “Lex” and “Lex na[tur]æ.”

Publications:

1. “John Locke and natural law” / W. von Leyden. // IN: Philosophy. – 31 (1965):33-35. – Modernized spelling and punctuation.
2. “Consent in the political theory of John Locke” / by John Dunn. // IN: Historical journal. – 10 (1967):155-156.
3. Political essays / Locke ; edited by Mark Goldie. – Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1997. – p. 270. [Locke #867+]

Discussions:   Von Leyden, publication #1 above; Dunn, publication #2 above; Goldie, publication #3 above.

Infinitum   (1678 July 16)

Location:   Bodleian Library, MS. Locke f. 3, pp. 205-206.

Description:   An entry in Locke’s journal dated 16 July 1678, with the marginal caption “Infinitum” (at the beginning).

Publications:

1. An early draft of Locke’s Essay : together with excerpts from his journals / edited by R.I. Aaron and Jocelyn Gibb. – Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1936. – pp. 111-112. [Locke #932]

Discussions:   G. Bonno, Les relations intellectuelles de Locke avec la France (1955), pp. 96-97.

Modes complex   (1678 August 25)

Location:   Bodleian Library, MS. Locke f. 3, p. 263.

Description:   A journal entry dated 25 August 1678, with the marginal caption “Modes complex.”

Publications:

1. An early draft of Locke’s Essay : together with excerpts from his journals / edited by R.I. Aaron and Jocelyn Gibb. – Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1936. – p. 112. [Locke #932]

Vertue, Atheists   (1678 August 26)

Location:   Bodleian Library, MS. Locke f. 3, pp. 266-267.

Description:   An entry in Locke’s journal dated 26 August 1678, with the marginal captions “Vertue” and “Atheists.” Goldie give it the title “Virtue A” to distinguish it from “Virtus” (1681).

Locke comments on a quotation from Jean de Lery, Histoire d’un voyage fait en la terre de Bresil (1594) [H&L 1717, 1718]

Publications:

1. Political essays / Locke ; edited by Mark Goldie. – Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1997. – p. 270-271. [Locke #867+]

Discussions:   Goldie, publication #1 above.

Happynesse   (1678 October 1)

Location:   Bodleian Library, MS. Locke f. 3, pages 304-305.

Description:   An entry in Locke’s journal dated 1 October 1678, with the marginal caption “Happynesse.” Goldie give it the title “Happiness B” to distinguish it from the the entry for 26 September 1676.

Publications:

1. The life of John Locke : with extracts from his correspondence, journals and common-place books / by Lord King. – London : H. Colburn, 1829. – p. 115; London : H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1830. – vol. 1:216.
2. The life of John Locke / by H.R. Fox Bourne. – London : H.S. King ; New York : Harper, 1876. – vol. 1:124-125.
3. “The influence of Gassendi on Locke’s hedonism” / Edward A. Driscoll. // IN: International philosophical quarterly. – 12 (1972):100. – Modernized spelling.
4. Political essays / Locke ; edited by Mark Goldie. – Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1997. – p. 271. [Locke #867+]

Discussions:   Driscoll, publication #3 above; Goldie, publication #4 above.

An essay on recreation [copy]   (1678 December 2-5)

Location:   Bodleian Library, MS. Locke f. 3, pages 351-357.

Description:   This essay was originally written in March 1677 and sent in a letter to Dr. Denis Grenville. See description under 1677

Locke copied the paper into his Journal the following year, written between the entries dated 2 and 5 December 1678. The entry is headed “An essay concerning Recreation in answer to D G^s desire Mar 77”.

Scrupulosity   (1678 December 2-6)

Location:   Bodleian Library, MS. Locke f. 3, pages 358-378.

Description:   A draft for a letter to Dr. Denis Grenville, with the marginal caption “Scrupulosity.” It is written in Locke’s journal between the entries for 2 and 5 December 1678, but dated “6 Dec.” on page 367. Locke’s letter of 26 November/6 December 1678, which includes only the first half of the piece, is in the Bodleian Library, MS. Rawlinson D. 849, ff. 150-151; the continuation (pages 367-378) may never have been sent. A copy of the letter exists in the British Library, Add. MS. 4290, ff. 115-119.

Publications:

1. [pages 358-363, from MS. Locke:] The life of John Locke : with extracts from his correspondence, journals and common-place books / by Lord King. – London : H. Colburn, 1829. – pages 113-115.
2. [from British Library MS:] The life of John Locke / by H.R. Fox Bourne. – London : H.S. King ; New York : Harper, 1876. – 1:394-397.
3. [Locke’s letter:] The correspondence of John Locke / edited by E.S. de Beer. – Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1976-89. – 1:646-650 [Locke #847, letter 426]

Discussions:   De Beer, publication #3 above, p. 555-556.

Credit, Disgrace   (1678 December 12)

Location:   Bodleian Library, MS. Locke f. 3, pages 381-382.

Description:   An entry in Locke’s journal dated 12 December 1678 n.s., with the marginal captions “Credit” and “Disgrace.” Locke initialed it on page 382. Goldie give it the title “Reputation.”

Notes based on Locke’s reading of Gabriel Sagard, Le Grand Voyage du Pays des Hurons (1632) [H&L 2527] and Pierre, Boucher, Histoire du Canada (1664) [H&L 401]

Publications:

1. The life of John Locke : with extracts from his correspondence, journals and common-place books / by Lord King. – London : H. Colburn, 1829. – pp. 108-109; London : H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1830. – vol. 1:203-204.
2. The life of John Locke / by H.R. Fox Bourne. – London : H.S. King ; New York : Harper, 1876. – vol. 1:403-404.
3. Political writings / John Locke ; edited and with an introduction by David Wootton. – London ; New York : Penguin Books, 1993. – pp. 236-237. [Locke #867+]
4. Political essays / Locke ; edited by Mark Goldie. – Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1997. – pp. 271-272. [Locke #867+]

Discussions:   Goldie, publication #4 above, p. 271.