What John Locke thinks about design

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English philosopher (1632 to 1704); Oxford academic and medical researcher; author of An Essay Concerning Human Understanding and the Second Treatise of Government.

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1. c. 1689–1690

   Our readingWhen a long train of abuses makes a ruler's design visible, people can be expected to rouse themselves and change who governs

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   Their wordsBut if a long train of abuses, prevarications and artifices, all tending the same way, make the design visible to the people, and they cannot but feel what they lie under, and see whither they are going; it is not to be wondered, that they should then rouze themselves, and endeavour to put the rule into such hands which may secure to them the ends for which government was at first erected

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