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    feave thought necessary or even decorous on such an occasion * As the whole inscription is short , you will probably allow I&& to quote it from the 4 th folio edition , where it is given on an fengraving , which , I dare say , is an exact representation of the Stone mentioned by Amicus : Ci

    Siste Viator . Hie juxta situs est , Johannes Locke . Si quails fuerit rogas , mediocritate su& contentum se vixisse respondet . Literis innutritus eousque tantum profecit , ut veritati unice litaret , hoc ex scriptis illius disce ; quae quod de eo reliquum est , tnqjori fide tibi exhibebunt , quam epitaphii sus- * pecta elogia . Virtutes si quas haburt , tninores sane quam quas

    sibi laudi tibi inexemplum proponeret . Vitia una sepeliantur . Morum exemplum si quaeras , in Evangelio habes , vitiorum uti- * nam nusquam , mortalitalis certe ( quod prosit ) hie et ubique . Itfatum A . D . 1632 , Aug . 29 . MortuumA . D . 1704 5 Oct . 28 * memorat haec tabula brevi et ipsa interitura . "

    It is no siuall discredit to Locke's contemporaries that his remains should have been consigned to a retired village churchyard ; a situation suited indeed to his own simplicity of character ; but ill representing the public gratitude due to the " Patriot Saint atvd Sage / ' and utterly inconsistent with that wise policy of the best times which held up distinguished merit in the mosi

    conspicuous manner to the regard and imitation of posterity . Now the political disciples of his school have gamed the upper * most seat in the synagogue of St . Stephen's , may this national reproach be done away , and the statue of Locke be placed in St . Paul ' s , as a companion to that of the illustrious assertor of his principles , Sir W . Jones ! The noble biographer of the latter with his views and connexions must have found it no easy task

    to manage either the theology or politics of his friend . He is content to prove him an Orthodox Christian , by the help of a devotional composition purely theistical , and solaces himself under the recollection of his political misdemeanours by a sanguine conceit that his principles , which were no other than " the principles of Locke , are now generally exploded . "

    " What ardently we wish we soon believe . " Bishop Law had met with some of these exploders in his time ; he remarks in the preface already quoted , "how seasonable a recollection of Mr . Locke's political principles is now become , when several writers have attempted , from particular emergencies ^ to

    shake those universal and invariable truths whereon all just government is ultimately founded ; when they betray so gross an ignorance or contempt of them as even to avow the directly opposite doctrines—doctrines that have been confuted over and over and exploded long ago , and which one might well sCippose Mr . Locke must have for ever silenced by his incomparable

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1806, page 177, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1723/page/9/