Locke died on October 28, 1704, amid circumstances of singular majesty.

He had lived a full life, and few have so completely realized the medieval ideal of specializing in omniscience.

He left warm friends behind him; and Lady Masham has said of him that beyond which no man may dare to aspire.[2] [Footnote 2: Fox-Bourne, _op.cit_.Letter from Lady Masham to Jean le Clerc.] III Locke's _Two Treatises of Government_ are different both in object and in value.

The first is a detailed and tiresome response to the historic imagination of Sir Robert Filmer.

In his _Patriarcha_, which first saw the light in 1680, though it had been written long before, the latter had sought to reach the ultimate conclusion of Hobbes without the element of contract upon which the great thinker depended.