Political Society and Religious Liberty. Locke at Cleves and in Holland

Locke's sojourn in Cleves must have played a significant role in his own intellectual progress since twenty years later, in 1685 during the period of his voluntary exile in Holland - and against the advice of his best friends of the time, the Dutchmen Philippus van Limborch and Pieter Guenellon - he unexpectedly decided to return to visit the city, a journey on this occasion shrouded in secrecy. The real motives for this visit are nevertheless far from having been explained.