Fowler tells the life of John Locke from his birth at Wrington in Somerset in 1632 through Oxford, medical studies, service with the Earl of Shaftesbury, years in France and Holland, and the return to England after 1688. Later chapters cover his quiet last years at Oates, his public posts, his controversy with Bishop Stillingfleet, and his major writings.
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