The Most Dangerous Man in the World

Menace to tyrants, liberator of generations

Author: Dan Sanchez

Original source: Letters of Liberty.

 

In 1683, the most dangerous man in the world escaped from England to the Netherlands.

 

He didn’t look very formidable. He was 51 years old, lanky, and asthmatic. He had, according to one description, a “long face, large nose, full lips, and soft, melancholy eyes.”

 

Yet the King of England considered him one of his deadliest enemies. He was suspected of conspiring to assassinate Charles II. But what really made him a threat to the throne was not his skill in the lethal arts, but his genius in the literary arts.

 

In the hands of John Locke, the pen was truly mightier than the sword.

 

Read the rest at the source: Letters of Liberty.

Translated Serbian/Croatian version available here.