"I commend very much the discretion of Mrs. Furley, that she would not give him præcipitates-1°. Because physick is not to be given to children upon every little disorder. 2o. Physick for the worms is not to be given upon bare suspicion that there may be worms. 3o. If it were evident that he had worms, such dangerous medicines are not to be given till after the use of other and more gentle and safe remedys. If he continue still dull and melancholy, the best way is to have him abroad to walke with you every day in the air; that, I believe, may set him right without any physic, at least, if it should not, 'tis not fit to give him remedys till one has well examined what is the distemper, unless you think (as is usually doune), that at all hazard something is to be given; a way, I confess, I could never thinke reasonable, it being better in my opinion to doe no thing, than to doe amiss."-Locke to Furley in Forster. BOOKS CONSULTED. 1. Bibliothèque Choisie, tome vi.: 1716.—2. Oxford and Locke; by Lord Grenville: London, 1829.3. Life of John Locke; by Lord King.-4. Original Letters of John Locke, Algernon Sydney, and Lord Shaftesbury; edited by T. Forster; second edition: London, privately printed, 1847.-5. Ward's Lives of the Professors of Gresham College.-6. Thomæ Sydenham, M.D., Opera omnia; edidit G. A. Greenhill, M.D.: Londini, impensis Societatis Sydenhamianæ, 1844. 7. The Works of Thomas Sydenham, M.D.: with a Life of the Author; by R. G. Latham, M.D., 2 vols.: printed for the Sydenham Society.-8. MSS. Letters and Common-Place Books of John Locke, in the possession of the Earl of Lovelace. B WHAT WAS IT? F the 15th verse of the fourth chapter of the Epistle to the Galatians, instead of being taken in a figurative sense, as it generally has been, be understood literally, it will be found to furnish the means of determining, with a tolerably near approach to certainty, the particular nature of the disease under which St. Paul is supposed to have laboured, and which he elsewhere speaks of as the "Thorn in his flesh." And that the literal interpretation is the true one, may, I think, be shown, partly from the general scope of the paragraph to which the 15th verse belongs; partly from some peculiarities of expression in it, which could only have been used under an intention that the verse in question should be taken literally; and partly also from the fact that there are state |