...Mr Newton, with some others of that Strain; 'tis 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..."4 The philosopher had, Locke implied, a quite different role to play from that of the...

...Herein lay the enormous appeal of Locke's image of the philosopher as 'an Under-Labourer in clearing Ground a little, and removing some of the Rubbish, that lies in the way to Knowledge', so as to beat a path for the true 'master-builders' - that is, such scientists as Robert Boyle, Thomas...

...the incomparable Mr. Newton ... it is ambition enough to be employed as an under-labourer in clearing ground a little, and removing some of the rubbish that lies in the way to knowledge. (Locke, Essay, vol. I, xxxv) When Isaac Newton died in 1727 attempts to explain and communicate his...

...old hierarchy of values which the ethic of ordinary life entailed." be employed as an Under-Laborer in clearing the Ground a little, and removing some of the Rubbish, that lies in the way to Knowledge.'"6 The trained Lockean understanding is not classy or flamboyant in its operation: it proceeds...

...the admiration of posterity...; 'tis ambition enough to be employed as an under-labourer in clearing ground a little, and removing some of the rubbish that lies in the way to knowledge.' An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689), Epistle to the Reader. the place where a society constitutes...

...philosophi72. John Locke says, "'tis Ambition enough to be employed as an Under-Labourer in clearing Ground a little, and removing some of the Rubbish, that lies in the way to Knowledge." An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979), p. 10. 73. Le Dœuff,...

...announces in the Epistle to the Reader 'tis Ambition enough to be employed as an Under-Labourer in clearing Ground a little, and removing some of the Rubbish,...of ingenious and industrious Men had not been much cumbred with the learned but frivolous use of uncouth, affected, or unintelligible Terms, introduced...

...on the social realm from experimentation, asserting that his own role was that of "an under-labourer in clearing the ground a little, and removing some of the rubbish that lies in the way to knowledge" (1959 [1690] I: 14) in comparison with the efforts of such "masterbuilders" in "the commonwealth of...

...with some other of that Strain; 'tis Ambition enough to be employed as an Under-Labourer in clearing Ground a little, and removing some of the Rubbish, that lies in the way to Knowledge.* While Locke in this passage makes a very conventional rhetorical gesture of humility/' he also clearly...

...of himself, beside the "incomparable Mr. Newton, an under-labourer, employed in clearing the ground and removing some of the rubbish that lies in the way to knowledge";7 or by the famous tribute of Laplace who remarked that Newton was not only the greatest...