He believed that the spring of all action is desire. It is feeling of uneasiness identified with pain, a feeling of which men want to somehow rid of themselves. ... It could be discovered by reasoning and commanding men to carry out the will of God. ... He thought that all humans are born free. ... Thus, Locke believed in the goodness of man, unlike Hobbes who thought all men are e...
This was based on Locke's belief that all men come into the world as potential equals, and their mind like a blank page to which every impression is impacted. ... The obvious danger of such economic control initiated a full-blown assailment against wealth, peculiarly lead by some of the richest men in America such as Benjamin Franklin, Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, John Hancock, and George Washington. These rich, privileged men, and future authors of the Declaration of Independence, were confronted with an atmosphere that desperately required the backing of the poor and working-class p...
