"So that, in effect, religion, which should most distinguish us from beasts, and ought most peculiarly to elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is that wherein men often appear most irrational, and more senseless than beasts themselves."
John Locke was an English philosopher and political thinker of the Enlightenment. He is widely known for An Essay Concerning Human Understanding and Two Treatises of Government, works that shaped empiricism and liberal political theory.