Abstract
Abstract According To A Tradition associated with virtually the earliest Edwards biography, the future minister and theologian seems to have discovered Locke’s Essay concerning Human Understanding sometime around 1717-which is to say, during his sophomore year at Yale. It is not difficult to imagine the young Edwards at that auspicious moment: bred within the narrow confines of a scholastic discipline that reached back to medieval sources, suddenly exposed to a new mode of inquiry less concerned with theological doctrine than with trying to ascertain how the mind perceives external objects. The result: a notebook entitled “The Mind,” which displays the empiricist influences of Newton and Locke on a precocious philosophical intelligence.
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