A N ESSAY CONCERNING HUMAN UNDERSTANDING. IN FOUR BOOK S, WRITTEN BY JOHN LOCK E, Efq. IN THREE VOLUMES, VOLUME THE FIRST. A NEW EDITION CORRECTED. As thou knoweft not what is the way of the fpirit, Quam bellum eft velle confiteri potius nefcire quod ne- fibi difplicere! Cic. de Nat. Deor. l. 1. GLASGOW Printed by ROBERT URIE To the RIGHT HONOURABLE THOMAS EARL OF Pembroke and Montgomery, Baron HERBERT of Cardiff, Lord Ross of Kendal, Par, Fitzhugh, Marmion, St. Quintin, and Shurland; Lord Prefident of his Majesty's most honourable Privy-Council, and Lord Lieutenant of the county of Wilts, and of South-Wales. MY LORD, T HIS treatise, which is grown up under your Lordship's eye, and has ventured into the world by your order, does now, by a natural kind of right, come to your Lordship for that protection, which you feveral years fince promised it. It is not that I think any name, how great foever, fet at the beginning of a book, will be able to |