Excerpt from An Essay on the Origin of Human Knowledge: Being a Supplement to Mr. Locke's Essay on the Human Understanding If any name can be faid to have had weight with our author, it was that of Mr. Locke. This is the more remarkable, as he fame to have but an indifferent opinion of his ovum countrymen, thofe great metaphyfieians Des Cartes and Mallebranche, the former of whom he charges with being a firanger to the origin and formation of ideas, the other with metaphyfi cal reveries. Thus he fhews himfelf a friend to truth wherever he finds it and as flich he could not but have a regard for a writer, whofe memory will be ever revered by thofe. 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.