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Date: 1778

"The mind of man has been by some authors called a tabula rasa, and compared to a sheet of clean paper."

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Date: 1778

"One should imagine, that the human intellect, by its original constitution, easily admits and retains some impressions, as congenial to its nature, and faithful to their objects; whilst it repels others with aversion or disdain, as subversive of its happiness, and false to the things which they ...

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Date: 1778

"Hence our frame, from its very origin, seems marked by the hand of nature with indubitable signatures of pre-eminence and distinction."

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