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Excerpt from The Influence of Contemporary Science on Locke's Method and Results Locke intends to take a survey of our own understand ings, examine our own powers, and see to what things they are adapted.1 This he will do through the employment of an historical, plain method. By historical he means the method of careful, accurate observation of the sequences of matter of fact. Similarly, in Boyle's treatise on The Origin of Forms and Qualities, the historical part,2 in contrast to the theoretical part,3 contains the observations of experiments. Locke turns away from speculative hypotheses and undertakes an examination of the mind and its objects in knowledge. 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.