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Excerpt from An Essay on Capacity and Genius: To Prove That There Is No Original Mental Superiority Between the Most Illiterate and the Most Learned of Mankind; And That No Genius, Whether Individual or National, Is Innate, but Solely Produced by and Dependent on Circumstances; Also, an Enquiry Into Has not Mr Locke already sufficiently established the non-existence of innateness? This is the first question that will naturally suggest itself to the generality of readers; and, therefore, before we proceed farther, we feel it incumbent upon ourselves to answer it to their satisfaction. Mr Locke's labours were more particularly directed to the subversion, in general, of innate principles and ideas; our work is written against a commonly received opinion of the original superiority of one intellect over another. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.