CHAPTER I.
YOUTH AND ITS SURROUNDINGS.
[1632-1652.]
JOHN LOCKE was born on the 29th of August,
1632; forty-four years after Hobbes, thirty-six after Descartes, twenty-four after Milton, and in the same year as Spinoza; ten years before Newton, and fourteen before Leibnitz.
He died on the 28th of October, 1704 Berkeley was. then twenty years old, and Voltaire ten. Hume was born seven years, and Kant twenty, after his death.
He was in his seventeenth year when Charles the First was beheaded, and in his twenty-eighth year when Charles the Second was allowed to assume the English crown. He was sixty-seven when William of Orange was made king, and he lived through two and a half years of the reign of Anne.
His father claimed some sort of cousinship with a John Locke who was mayor of Bristol in 1642, and who was descended from an earlier John Locke, sheriff of London