Ibsen's early works included two verse dramas: The first, Brand (1866; first produced in 1885), dramatized the tragedy of blind devotion to a false sense of duty; the second, Peer Gynt (1867), related, in allegorical terms, the adventures of a charming opportunist. ... Ibsen became so popular that young playwrights learned from him, reformers adopted his ideas, and moralists quoted from him as from a sacred book. ...

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Locke was the son of a Puritan Somerset lawyer who served in the Parliamentary Army during the Civil War. ... He stated that if truth is native to our minds, then observation and experimentation could lead one nowhere, at the most they can only confirm our knowledge and not act as additions to it. ...

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