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Date: Tuesday, October 22, 1706

"Sometimes it is acted by the evil Spirit of general Vogue, and like a meer Possession 'tis hurry'd out of all manner of common Measures; to day it obeys the Course of things and submits to Causes and Consequences; to morrow it suffers Violence from the Storms and Vapours of Human Fancy, operated...

— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)

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Date: 1706

"Every one declares against blindness, and yet who almost is not fond of that which dims his sight, and keeps the clear light out of his mind, which should lead him into truth and knowledge?"

— Locke, John (1632-1704)

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Date: 1706

"There are so many ways of fallacy, such arts of giving colours, appearances and resemblances by this court-dresser, the fancy, that he who is not wary to admit nothing but truth itself, very careful not to make his mind subservient to any thing else, cannot but be caught."

— Locke, John (1632-1704)

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Date: 1706

In the association of ideas "unnatural connections become by custom as natural to the mind, as sun and light"

— Locke, John (1632-1704)

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Date: 1706

Many men "blinded as they have been from the beginning, they never could think otherwise; at least without a vigour of mind able to contest the empire of habit"

— Locke, John (1632-1704)

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Date: 1706 [first published 1658]

"To Implant, to ingraft, fix or fasten, in the Mind."

— Phillips, Edward (1630-1696)

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Date: 1706 [first published 1658]

"To Ingraft, to graft, to let a Graft or young Shoot into the stock of a Tree, to implant, imprint, or fix in the Mind."

— Phillips, Edward (1630-1696)

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Date: 1706 [first published 1658]

"Innate Principles, certain Original Notions or Characters which some Philosophers will have to be stamp'd on the Mind of Man when it first receives its Being."

— Phillips, Edward (1630-1696)

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Date: 1706 [first published 1658]

"Reminiscence, the Faculty, or Power of rememb'ring, whereby such Ideas, or Notions, as were once perceived, or imprinted on the Mind, but afterwards forgotten, are call'd again and brought fresh to its Remembrance."

— Phillips, Edward (1630-1696)

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Date: 1706 [first published 1658]

"To Revolve, to cast about in one's Mind."

— Phillips, Edward (1630-1696)

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The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.