text,updated_at,metaphor,created_at,context,theme,reviewed_on,dictionary,comments,provenance,id,work_id "[...} How marvellously he unfolds the great Volume of Temporal and Eternal Nature, and discovers the true Origin of natural and moral Evil; which has so perplexed modern Divines and Philosophers, as it formerly did the Ancient Sages to Account for. How solidly he establishes, in Opposition to the celebrated Mr. Locke, the Doctrine of Innate Ideas; or that the Soul of Man, is not in its first created State, a mere Rasa Tabula, or blank Paper, but full of divine Sensations, and the Powers, Riches and Glories of Eternity; all treasured up and lying dormant in it. In [end page 5] a Word, how clearly he demonstrates to the ingenuous, enquiring Mind, the essential, eternal, and unchangeable Distinction, between God and Nature; a Mystery, with respect to its true Ground, hidden for Ages; and many other Truths of the utmost Moment, all coming Home to the Bosoms of Men; I am filled with Admiration; and cannot but consider him as a resplendent Luminary, newly arisen in the intellectual and spiritual World, in order to dispel the Darkness of bewildered Reason and Learning, and to establish in their Room, a Philosophy founded upon the solid and sublime Principles of the Gospel, the manifest Operations of Nature, and the immutable Relations of Things [...]
(pp. 5-6)",2013-06-11 18:38:54 UTC,"""How solidly he establishes, in Opposition to the celebrated Mr. Locke, the Doctrine of Innate Ideas; or that the Soul of Man, is not in its first created State, a mere Rasa Tabula, or blank Paper, but full of divine Sensations, and the Powers, Riches and Glories of Eternity; all treasured up and lying dormant in it.""",2006-10-13 00:00:00 UTC,"",Blank Slate,,Coinage and Writing,"•""He"" is William Law.
•I've included twice: Tabula Rasa and Paper","Searching ""tabula rasa"" in ECCO",14842,5556