ABSTRACT
‘Superaddition’ signifies the manner in which Locke supposed God fashioned the world. It is an act of divine omnipotence, but unlike miracles, superadditions are not extraordinary events, rather they are actions that establish the order of nature as a chain or ladder of being that extends from bare inert matter to the purest spirits, each level distinguished from the preceding by a power that modern naturalists might describe as emergent. Locke’s adoption of this creationist theory of nature distinguishes him from ancient and modern naturalism.
