text,updated_at,metaphor,created_at,context,theme,reviewed_on,dictionary,comments,provenance,id,work_id
"VIII. But this is what I foresaw, a flood of light let in at once upon the mind being apt to dazzle and disorder, rather than enlighten it. Was I not pinched in time, the regular way would be to have begun with the circumstantials of religion; next to have attacked the mysteries of Christianity; after that proceeded to the practical doctrines; and in the last place to have extirpated that which, of all other religious prejudices, being the first taught, and basis of the rest, hath taken the deepest root in our minds, I mean the belief of a God. I do not wonder it sticks with you, having known several very ingenious men who found it difficult to free themselves from this prejudice.
(p. 43)",2011-03-31 21:43:04 UTC,"""But this is what I foresaw, a flood of light let in at once upon the mind being apt to dazzle and disorder, rather than enlighten it.""",2011-03-31 21:43:04 UTC,Dialogue I,Enlightenment,,Optics,anti-Enlightenment,Reading,18271,4495
"Hyl.
I have been a long time distrusting my Senses; methought I saw things by a dim Light, and thro false Glasses. Now, the Glasses are removed, and a new Light breaks in upon my Understanding. I am clearly convinced, that I see things in their native Forms; and am no longer in Pain a|bout their unknown Natures, or absolute Existence. This is the State I find myself in at present: Tho, indeed, the Course that brought me to it, I do not yet thorowly comprehend. You set out upon the same Principles, that Academics, Cartesians, and the like Sects, usually do; and, for a long time, it looked as if you were advancing their Philosophical Scepticism; but, in the End, your Conclusions are directly opposite to theirs.
(pp. 165-6)",2013-09-12 17:19:40 UTC,"""I have been a long time distrusting my Senses; methought I saw things by a dim Light, and thro false Glasses. Now, the Glasses are removed, and a new Light breaks in upon my Understanding.""",2013-09-12 17:19:40 UTC,"","",,"","",Reading,22730,4178