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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1: MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2

John Locke

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This 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 several years since promised it. It is not that I think any name, how great soever, set at the beginning of a book, will be able to cover the faults that are to be found in it. Things in print must stand and fall by their o…

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  • AuthorJohn Locke
  • SourceProject Gutenberg #10615
  • Length148,832 words · 9h 55m of reading
  • Chapters38
  • DictionaryIncluded
  • CopyrightPublic domain in the United States
  • Source checked2026-08-21

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38 chapters

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  1. 01An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding
  2. 02MDCXC
  3. 03THE EPISTLE TO THE READER
  4. 04CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION.
  5. 05CHAPTER II. NO INNATE SPECULATIVE PRINCIPLES.
  6. 06CHAPTER III. NO INNATE PRACTICAL PRINCIPLES
  7. 07CHAPTER I. OF IDEAS IN GENERAL, AND THEIR ORIGINAL.
  8. 08CHAPTER II. OF SIMPLE IDEAS.
  9. 09CHAPTER III. OF SIMPLE IDEAS OF SENSE.
  10. 10CHAPTER IV. IDEA OF SOLIDITY.
  11. 11CHAPTER V. OF SIMPLE IDEAS OF DIVERS SENSES.
  12. 12CHAPTER VI. OF SIMPLE IDEAS OF REFLECTION.
  13. 13CHAPTER VII. OF SIMPLE IDEAS OF BOTH SENSATION AND REFLECTION.
  14. 14CHAPTER IX. OF PERCEPTION.
  15. 15CHAPTER X. OF RETENTION.
  16. 16CHAPTER XI. OF DISCERNING, AND OTHER OPERATIONS OF THE MIND.
  17. 17CHAPTER XII. OF COMPLEX IDEAS.
  18. 18CHAPTER XIV. IDEA OF DURATION AND ITS SIMPLE MODES.
  19. 19CHAPTER XV. IDEAS OF DURATION AND EXPANSION, CONSIDERED TOGETHER.
  20. 20CHAPTER XVI. IDEA OF NUMBER.
  21. 21Units. 623137
  22. 22CHAPTER XVII. OF INFINITY.
  23. 23CHAPTER XVIII. OTHER SIMPLE MODES.
  24. 24CHAPTER XIX. OF THE MODES OF THINKING.
  25. 25CHAPTER XX. OF MODES OF PLEASURE AND PAIN.
  26. 26CHAPTER XXI. OF POWER.
  27. 27CHAPTER XXII. OF MIXED MODES.
  28. 28CHAPTER XXIII. OF OUR COMPLEX IDEAS OF SUBSTANCES.
  29. 29CHAPTER XXIV. OF COLLECTIVE IDEAS OF SUBSTANCES.
  30. 30CHAPTER XXV. OF RELATION.
  31. 31CHAPTER XXVI. OF CAUSE AND EFFECT, AND OTHER RELATIONS.
  32. 32CHAPTER XXVII. OF IDENTITY AND DIVERSITY.
  33. 33CHAPTER XXVIII. OF OTHER RELATIONS.
  34. 34CHAPTER XXIX. OF CLEAR AND OBSCURE, DISTINCT AND CONFUSED IDEAS.
  35. 35CHAPTER XXX. OF REAL AND FANTASTICAL IDEAS.
  36. 36CHAPTER XXXI. OF ADEQUATE AND INADEQUATE IDEAS.
  37. 37CHAPTER XXXII. OF TRUE AND FALSE IDEAS.
  38. 38CHAPTER XXXIII. OF THE ASSOCIATION OF IDEAS.

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