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REVIEW ESSAY Writing the Life of Locke Ian Harris Roger Woolhouse. Locke: A Biography. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. pp. 558. T Collingwood stated that “the autobiography of a man whose business is thinking should be the story of his thought.”1 Does this apply to another’s life of a thinker? Most academics answer “yes, but” to most questions, and this question is not likely to be an excep- tion. Plainly, we have a “yes”: the story of his thought must be a cen- tral feature of such a biography. Plainly, we have a “but”: the thought does not come from n