Date: 1641
"But if the entire soul is something of this kind, why should you, who may be thought of as the noblest part of the soul, not be regarded as being, so to speak, the flower, or the most refined and pure and active part of it?"
preview | full record— Gassendi, Pierre (1592-1655)
Date: 1652
"And truly he might as well phansie such implanted Ideas, such seeds of light in his external eye, as such seminal principles in the eye of the minde."
preview | full record— Culverwell, Nathanael (bap. 1619, d. 1651)