Full Idea
Human understanding is scarce able to substitute better than the corpuscularian hypothesis in an explication of the qualities of bodies, which will afford us a fuller and clearer discovery of the necessary connection and co-existence of the powers.
Gist of Idea
The corpuscular hypothesis is the best explanation of the necessary connection and co-existence of powers
Source
John Locke (Essay Conc Human Understanding (2nd Ed) [1694], 4.03.16)
Book Reference
Locke,John: 'Essay Concerning Human Understanding', ed/tr. Nidditch,P.H. [OUP 1979], p.547
A Reaction
[considerably reworded] Locke is committed to natural necessities, in a way entirely rejected by Hume. The picture given in this remark perfectly embodies scientific essentialism, though elsewhere Locke is more cautious.