His health deteriorated and he retired to Oates, in Essex where he died in 1704. ... The example was that we arrive at knowledge in the opposite way a spider spins his web from its bowels. ... We do not gain ideas from within ourselves, but we acquire them from without. ... In Locke's words, "What has an aptness to produce pleasure in us is what we call good, and what apt is to produce pain in us we call evil". ... He opined in his Essay on Human Understanding, (in three chapters) that there are no universally binding moral laws. ...

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