An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding 
 
 
In Four Books 
By 
John Locke, Gent. 
 
As thou knowest not what is the way of the Spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with 
child: even so thou knowest not the works of God, who maketh all things.--Eccles. 11. 5. 
 
Quam bellum est velle confiteri potius nescire quod nescias, quam ista effutientem nauseare, atque ipsum sibi 
displicere.--Cicero, de Natur. Deor. l. i. 
 
 
London 
Printed by Eliz. Holt, for Thomas Basset, at the George in Fleet Street, near St. Dunstan's Church, 
1690 
 
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