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    Vol . V . dtf 8 uj * pterft& * t to &nfrf dopte&kt Britumteti . 4 % 0 . ] ^* JK 7 * £ put dowa tHis title not to atwW tempt any review or analysis *> f the instructive and amusing- essay which Mr . Stewart has given to the worid , or even to make extracts from

    it , but merely to introduce two letters that passed between Locke and Newton , here inserted in a note , and , we foeKeve , now printed for the first time . Having introduced a passage of Lord Shaftesbury ' s , crying out against the tebd&ncy ef Mr . Locke ' s philosophical speculations , Mr . SteWart says ,

    u Isaac rtfewton himself , an intimate friend of Locke ' s , appears , from a letter of his which 1 have read in his own hand-writing , to have elt precisely in the same manner with the author of the Characteristics . Sach , at least , were his first impressions ; although he afterwards requested , with a humility and

    candour worthy of himself , the forgiveness of Locke for this injustice done to his character . € I beg your pardon' ( says lje ) c for representing that you struck at tix& root of morality in a principle you 3 atd ddwtl in your nook of Ideas , and deigned to prtirsue in another book ; and that I took JtoH for a HobbTst . ' In the saine letter Newtfcn alludes to certain

    unfounded suspicions which he had been led to entertain of the propriety of Iaocke ' s conduct in some of their private concetti * ; adding , with an ingenuous and almost infantine simplicity , ' I was

    so niuch affected with this , that when one told me you was sickly and would iiot live , 1 answered , 'twere better if you Were dead . I clesire you to forgive me this uncharitablehesx . * 'JThe tetter is

    subscribed , your most hum bin and most tthfortunate servant , Is . Newton . * " The rough draught of Mr . Locke's reply to these afflicting acknowledgments was kindly communicated to me by a

    frifetid some years ago . It is written wit h the magnanimity of a philosopher , and with the good-humoured forbearance of & man of the world ; and it breathes throughout so tender and so unaffected a

    veneration for the good as well as great qualities of the excellent person to whom it is addressed , as demonstrates at once the conscious integrity of the writer * and ' /** ' * It Is dared at the BuH in Shvreditch , I * &tim * S s eptember ^ 1603 ; and Is adl * rei » Sf 5 * l / For John J ^ ckey E $ q ^ at Sir Fra . Ma * htim \\; Hart ., atOates ^ in Essex r

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    ifafe Mftetto&yof his mind to the ^ kni ^ fcion of little -passions . I know of nothing from Locke ' s pen which does more honour to his temper and character ; an ( i

    I introduce it with peculiar satisfaction in connexion With those strictures wbich truth has extorted from me on that part of his System which to the nidrahst stands most in need of explanation ^ apology .

    Mr . Locke to Mr . Newton , " < Sr R , t ) ate $ M 5 th October , 93 . < c c I have been erer since I first khew you so kindly and sincerely your friend , and thought you so much mine , that i cortld not havx ? believed what you tell m ? of yourself , had I had it from any body else * And though I cannot but be

    mightily troubled that you should have had so many wrong and unjust thoughts of me , yet , next to the return of good offices , such as from a sincere good will I have ever done you , I receive yoinacknowledgment of the contrary as the kindest thing you could have done me , since it gives me hopes 1 have not lost a iriend I so much valued . After what

    yow letter expresses , I shall not need to say any thing to justify myself to you : I shall always think your own reflection on my carriage both to you and all mankind will sufficiently do that . Instead of that , give me leave to assure you , that I am more ready , to forgive you than

    you can be to desire it ; and I do it no freely and fully that £ wish for nothititf more than the opportunity to convince you that I truly love and esteena you : and that I have still the same good will for you as if nothing of this had happened . To confirm this to you mow

    fully , I should be glad to meet you auy where , and the rather , because the conclusion of your letter makes me apprehend it would not be wholly use ) es « to you . I shall always be ready to serve you to my utmost , in arfy way you shall Hke , and shall only need ybur commands or permission to do it .

    " ' My book is goiog to press for a second edition ; and though I can answer for the design with Which 1 writ it , yet , since you have bo . opportunely given me notice of what you have eald o ( it , I should take it as ^ fav ou r if you would point out to me the places that

    gave occasion to that censure , that , l > y explaining myself better , I may a « rtid being mistaken by others , or unwilliugl v doing the least prejudice to truth or ^ virtue . I ato sure yoa are so much a fVfend to both , that , were you none to tne > *¦ could expect this from yotu But I can ^

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    ! ! £ Critivttl N&tceii . ^ &tevMtt &n the * FN # *^* Of PJtitos&pTty in Europe ,

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1822, page 116, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2509/page/52/