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Quotation from An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke
“it is ambition enough to be employed as an under-labourer in clearing the ground a little, and removing some of the rubbish that lies in the way to knowledge”
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Epistle to the Reader (Project Gutenberg #10615)
Locke modestly positions himself beneath the great experimental scientists, including the physician Thomas Sydenham.
Citation: "it is ambition enough to be employed as an under-labourer in clearing the ground a little, and removing some of the rubbish that lies in the way to knowledge" — John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Epistle to the Reader (Project Gutenberg #10615). (id an-essay-concerning-human-understanding-q1)
Portrait: Portrait of John Locke, Godfrey Kneller, Public domain.
