It is as a philosopher that Locke's fame is greatest.He was the ancestor of the English empirical shcool,and exercised a profound influence on philosophic though Europe.Almost all the main lines of the intellectual activity of the eighteenth century in England lead back to Lock.The Dialgues are the best defense of Berkeley's mian doctrines,and are regarded by Leslie Stephen as the finest specimen in our language of the conduct of argument by diaglogue.Hume's most elaborate philosphical work was his Treatise of Human Nature.To understand Fully Hume's place in the history of European philosophy,it is still necessary to study the Treaties,From The Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding one an gather much of his general attitued and method of thinking;while in shuch sections as that on miracles we have an explanation of the bitter animosity that he roused in orthodox circles.展开