work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context 7622,Lockean,ECCO-TCP,2013-08-18 04:53:06 UTC,"LUCINUS
As to the first Entry of Ideas into the Mind, you know Aristotle has been blamed for affirming that nothing is in the Understanding which was not before in the Senses. But there seems to be no great danger in that Opinion, if we do not limit the Senses to too small a number. You remember Mr. Locke's Account of their Entry?

AEMILIUS
Not well.

LUCINUS
'Tis to this purpose:
""The Senses at first let in particular Ideas, and furnish the yet empty Cabinet: and the Mind, by degrees growing familiar with some of them, they are lodg'd in the Memory, and Names got to them, &c.""

AEMILIUS
Obscurum per Obscurius. The question is, how this Familiarity arises? and how the Cabinet comes to be sensible of any thing that's put into it? A Scritore knows nothing of the Papers which the careful Banker locks up in it? Or a Glass, tho' it may be said to receive the Image of a Beau, and he really sees somewhat of himself in it; yet it can hardly be said to see any thing of him. It would rather seem the Mind had some native Light of its own, which is awaken'd we know not how, and flies out, as it were, thro' the Senses to the things it apprehends or lays hold on.
(p. 88)",,22341,INTEREST. RICH PASSAGE. Locke cited. USE IN ENTRY.,"""The question is, how this Familiarity arises? and how the Cabinet comes to be sensible of any thing that's put into it? A Scritore knows nothing of the Papers which the careful Banker locks up in it? Or a Glass, tho' it may be said to receive the Image of a Beau, and he really sees somewhat of himself in it; yet it can hardly be said to see any thing of him. It would rather seem the Mind had some native Light of its own, which is awaken'd we know not how, and flies out, as it were, thro' the Senses to the things it apprehends or lays hold on.""",Mirror and Rooms and Writing ,2013-08-18 04:53:26 UTC,""