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John Locke is documented in Fuller’s letters, books, and published essays (1827–1845). 2 distinct works are named, most often in Review., and the most intensive engagement recorded is “read”.
Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this author is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →
“As a correspondent example of the manner in which true greatness apologises for its errors, we must quote a letter lately made public from Sir Isaac Newton to Mr. Locke”
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
“Miss Francis and I think of reading Locke, as introductory to a course of English metaphysics, and then De Stael on Locke's system.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.
Inferred Fuller and a companion plan to read Locke as an introduction to English metaphysics.
“They did not see that Pindar's odes might be very well arranged for their own purpose, and yet not bear translating into the methods of Mr. Locke.”
Fuller, Margaret. Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller. Boston: Brown, Taggard and Chase, 1860.
Inferred Locke is explicitly named as a representative of systematic, logical methodology ("the methods of Mr. In the context of epistemology and intellectual method, the implied referent is An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689). Fuller contrasts Pindar and Locke as models of intuitive versus systematic organization, using this comparison to defend Emerson's non-systematic essays.
“As a correspondent example of the manner in which true greatness apologises for its errors, we must quote a letter lately made public from Sir Isaac Newton to Mr. Locke”
“and for representing that you struck at the root of morality, in a principle you laid in your book of ideas, and designed to pursue in another book”
Fuller, Margaret. "Review." New-York Daily Tribune, 7 February 1845.