ABSTRACT
The great battle at issue between Marx and Locke is a battle about the nature of truth. John Locke adhered to what is called, by technicians of philosophy, 'the correspondence theory of truth.' The philosophy of Locke is as grey and sombre as the English skies. In the night heavens, however, of a dark and disturbed age of civil wars it disclosed in those skies the great stars of eternal truths. The bankruptcy of the Enlightenment, objectors can say, lies exposed in the words of Locke. The vitahst and anti-rationalist truth moves from the inside creatively out to conquer experience. A moral humility is recommended which places in the forefront of its mind the truth of human fallibility, the impossibility of final satisfaction in the quest for certainty. The Old Adam of intolerance was alive in Milton, even when he most thought it the New Adam of redemption.
