Angus, Joseph (1880). The Handbook of Specimens of English Literature. London: William Clowes and Sons. p.324. First, however, we will examine the problematic phenomena. 3.2 Limitations of the corpuscular hypothesis

I almost feel as though I were leaving my own country and my own kinsfolk; for everything that belongs to kinship, good will, love, kindness—everything that binds men together with ties stronger than that of blood—I have found among you in abundance. ... I seem to have found in your friendship alone enough to make me always rejoice that I was forced to pass so many years amongst you.

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In 1691, he moved to his close friend Lady Masham's country house at Oates, Essex. During this period, he became something of an intellectual hero of the Whigs, and he discussed matters with such figures as John Dryden and Sir Isaac Newton. He continued to work at the Board of Trade from 1696 until his retirement in 1700. I think I may say that of all the men we meet with, nine parts of ten are what they are, good or evil, useful or not, by their education.

Catholicism loomed as the worst menace to liberty because of the shrewd French King Louis XIV. He waged war for years against England and Holland—France had a population around 20 million, about four times larger than England and 10 times larger than Holland. George Berkeley, detail of an oil painting by John Smibert, c. 1732; in the National Portrait Gallery, London. (more)President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (a liberal by modern standards) dramatically expanded the scope of government in his New Deal policy in 1933 to bail his state out of the Great Depression. In this view, a larger and more powerful government would facilitate the liberties of its people. Henning, Basil Duke (1983), The House of Commons, 1660–1690, vol.1, Boydell & Brewer, ISBN 978-0-436-19274-6 , retrieved 28 August 2012

a b Kenyon, John (1977). Revolution Principles: The Politics of Party. 1689–1720. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. John W. Yolton (2000). Realism and Appearances: An Essay in Ontology. Cambridge University Press. p.136. Along with Thomas Hobbes and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, he was also one of the originators of Contractarianism (or Social Contract Theory), which formed the theoretical groundwork of democracy, republicanism and modern Liberalism and Libertarianism. He is sometimes referred to as the "Philosopher of Freedom", and his political views influenced both the American and French Revolutions. Life Some Considerations on the consequences of the Lowering of Interest and the Raising of the Value of MoneyRousseau, George S. (2004), Nervous Acts: Essays on Literature, Culture and Sensibility, Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN 978-1-4039-3453-6 Years after his death we are still gauging his impact on Western thought. His theories concerning the separation of Church and State, religious freedom, and liberty, not only influenced European thinkers such as the French Enlightenment writer, Voltaire but shaped the thinking of America's founders, from Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Jefferson. Nelson, Eric (2019). The Theology of Liberalism: Political Philosophy and the Justice of God. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-24094-0. Archived from the original on 2 August 2020 . Retrieved 24 April 2020.

Bitter Melon: Inside America's Last Rural Chinese Town by Jeff Gillenkirk and James Motlow (Nine Mile Press). Winner of the Commonwealth Club's 57th Annual Book Award, Silver Medal He is usually considered the first of the British Empiricists, the movement which included George Berkeley and David Hume, and which provided the main opposition to the 17th Century Continental Rationalists. He argued that all of our ideas are ultimately derived from experience, and the knowledge of which we are capable is therefore severely limited in its scope and certainty. Hohlwein, H (1961), "Pufendorf, Samuel Freiherr von", Die Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart (in German) , 5(3):721.for a quite different conception of knowledge. 2.3 Human knowledge in natural philosophy (sensitive knowledge)