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
