How long does it take to read Essay Concerning the True Original Extent and End of Civil Government?
(an essay concerning the true original, extent and end of civil government), and A letter concerning toleration.
Essay Concerning the True Original Extent and End of Civil Government by John Locke takes about 2 hours 48 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 48 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1691. 153 pages, about 42,075 words.
6 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 4 hours 41 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 48 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 45 minutes |
The page count is the median across 19 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The central principles of what today is broadly-known as political liberalism were made current in large part by Locke's "Second Treatise of Government" (1690). The principles of individual liberty, the rule of law, government by consent of the people, and the right to private property are taken for granted as fundamental to the human condition now. Most liberal theorists writing today look back to Locke as the source of their ideas. Some maintain that religious fundamentalism, 'post-modernism', and socialism are today the only remaining ideological threats to liberalism.
Subjects: Political science, Liberty, Toleration, Science politique, Philosophy, british
