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Date: 1757

"The mind is hurried out of itself, by a crowd of great and confused images; which affect because they are crowded and confused"

— Burke, Edmund (1729-1797)

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Date: 1757

"It can be no prejudice to this, to clear and distinguished some few particulars, that belong to the same class, and are consistent with each other, from the immense crowd of different, and sometimes contradictory, ideas, that rank vulgarly under the standard of beauty"

— Burke, Edmund (1729-1797)

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