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  2. An Historical Account of Two Notable Corruptions of Scripture

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    The account claimed to review the textual evidence available [2] from ancient sources on two disputed Bible passages: 1 John 5:7 and 1 Timothy 3:16. Newton describes this letter as "an account of what the reading has been in all ages, and what steps it has been changed, as far as I can hitherto determine by records", [ 3 ] and "a criticism ...

  3. William John Locke - Wikipedia

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    Adapted to the screen by Charles Dance, it was based on Locke's 1916 short story of the same title that had been published in a collection entitled "Faraway Stories." Probably the most famous of Locke's books adapted to the screen was the 1918 production of Stella Maris starring Mary Pickford.

  4. John Locke - Wikipedia

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    These books cover a wide range of subjects. According to John Harrison and Peter Laslett, the largest genres in Locke's library were theology (23.8% of books), medicine (11.1%), politics and law (10.7%), and classical literature (10.1%). [110] The Bodleian library currently holds more than 800 of the books from Locke's library. [108]

  5. Two Treatises of Government - Wikipedia

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    "John Locke". Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. "John Locke: Political Philosophy". Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Two Treatises of Government Book I and Book II; John Locke. Second Treatise of Government at Project Gutenberg; Two Treatises of Civil Government public domain audiobook at LibriVox

  6. Political philosophy - Wikipedia

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    Locke stood to refute Sir Robert Filmer's paternally founded political theory in favor of a natural system based on nature in a particular given system. The theory of the divine right of kings became a passing fancy, exposed to the type of ridicule with which John Locke treated it. Unlike Machiavelli and Hobbes but like Aquinas, Locke would ...

  7. Ten realms - Wikipedia

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    The ten realms are part of Buddhist cosmology and consist of four higher realms and six lower realms derived from the Indian concept of the six realms of rebirth. [3] These realms can also be described through the degrees of enlightenment that course through them. [4] They have been translated in various ways.

  8. Of the Conduct of the Understanding - Wikipedia

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    It complements Locke's Some Thoughts Concerning Education, which explains how to educate children. [2] The text espouses the importance of rational self-examination and its virtues when combating mental illness. Moral purity and sanity were, according to Locke, inextricably linked to self-scrutiny and mental freedom. [3]

  9. All men are created equal - Wikipedia

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    John C. Calhoun agreed, saying that there was "not a word of truth" in the phrase. [24] In 1853 and in the context of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, Senator John Pettit, said that the phrase was not a "self-evident truth" but a "self-evident lie". [24] These men were all either slave owners or supporters of slavery.