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He then directed in the house of the Earl of Shaftesbury the education of the latters son (then sixteen years old). The outlines of his Essay concerning Human Understanding were drawn up by Locke in 1670, but the work was not published until it had been repeatedly revised. His patron having become, in 1672, Lord Chancellor, Locke received from him the office of Secre- tary of the Presentation of Benefices, which, however, in the following year, when the Lord Chancellor fell into disfavor, he lost. In the years 1675-1679 Locke lived in France, chiefly at Montpellier, in the society of Herbert, the subsequent Earl of Pem- broke, to whom he dedicated his Essay, and also at Paris, in intercourse with men of scientific eminence. In 1679 Shaftesbury, having become President of the Council, recalled Locke to England. prev next |