It is very useful for the sailor to know how long his line is, even though it is too short to fathom all the depths of the ocean. It is good for him to know that it is long enough to reach the bottom at places where he needs to know where it is, and to caution him against running aground. . . . that’s about how I felt reading John Locke’s Human Understanding. I have reached the end of my rope, though I hope to lengthen it by continuing in my studies and drinking inordinate amounts of coffee (the beverage of enlightenment and of my GPA). I read Human Understanding, but this human was not understanding! I have so many questions. No one teaches a child to lie, he knows how to deceive from the moment he is born. Scripture tells us that the hearts of men are wicked, and that without God in our hearts we are children of the deceiver. Is the only innate knowledge I do not remember being sat on my father’s knee and being told that there is a God; I always believed that He put that knowledge in me, the way He put a consciousness in me that tells me that lying and stealing are wrong. . Are those not innate knowledge? Is the knowledge of a thing true, or must you also forever follow it for it to become your maxim?
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