... because of the existence of 'inner' conviction. He explained this giving a beautiful example. The example was that we arrive at knowledge in the opposite way a spider spins his web from its bowels. The spider first spins his web and creates his home, but here looking at the reverse method, Locke believed that, we humans spin our web first and then learn ... men depends upon a body of rules. This belief in the happy state of nature is derived from the Biblical narrative of the age of patriarchs and partly from the classical myth of the golden age. Locke defined the State of Nature a...

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