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Date: 1697

"You compare Cogitation in a Spirit, to Motion in a Body, and so Cessation from Thought in a a Spirit, must answer to Rest in a Body"

— Burnet, Thomas (c.1635-1715)

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Date: 1697

The soul may sleep

— Burnet, Thomas (c.1635-1715)

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Date: 1697

A "thoughtless, senseless, lifeless Soul" is the "Carcase of a Soul"

— Burnet, Thomas (c.1635-1715)

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Date: 1697

"If a Body cease to move, and come to perfect rest, the Motion it had cannot be restor'd, but a new Motion may be produc'd."

— Burnet, Thomas (c.1635-1715)

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Date: 1699

The opponent of innatism "might as well expect, that in a Seed, there should be Leaves, Flowers, and Fruit; or that in the rudiments of an Embryo there should be all the Parts and Members of a compleat Body, distinctly represented"

— Burnet, Thomas (c.1635-1715)

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