work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
5556,Blank Slate,"Searching ""tabula rasa"" in ECCO",2006-10-13 00:00:00 UTC,"[...} How marvellously he unfolds the great Volume of Temporal and Eternal Nature, and discovers the true Origin of natural and moral Evil; which has so perplexed modern Divines and Philosophers, as it formerly did the Ancient Sages to Account for. How solidly he establishes, in Opposition to the celebrated Mr. Locke, the Doctrine of Innate Ideas; or that the Soul of Man, is not in its first created State, a mere Rasa Tabula, or blank Paper, but full of divine Sensations, and the Powers, Riches and Glories of Eternity; all treasured up and lying dormant in it. In [end page 5] a Word, how clearly he demonstrates to the ingenuous, enquiring Mind, the essential, eternal, and unchangeable Distinction, between God and Nature; a Mystery, with respect to its true Ground, hidden for Ages; and many other Truths of the utmost Moment, all coming Home to the Bosoms of Men; I am filled with Admiration; and cannot but consider him as a resplendent Luminary, newly arisen in the intellectual and spiritual World, in order to dispel the Darkness of bewildered Reason and Learning, and to establish in their Room, a Philosophy founded upon the solid and sublime Principles of the Gospel, the manifest Operations of Nature, and the immutable Relations of Things [...]
(pp. 5-6)",,14842,"•""He"" is William Law.
•I've included twice: Tabula Rasa and Paper","""How solidly he establishes, in Opposition to the celebrated Mr. Locke, the Doctrine of Innate Ideas; or that the Soul of Man, is not in its first created State, a mere Rasa Tabula, or blank Paper, but full of divine Sensations, and the Powers, Riches and Glories of Eternity; all treasured up and lying dormant in it.""",Coinage and Writing,2013-06-11 18:38:54 UTC,""
4702,"",Searching and Reading in Google Books,2014-02-05 22:16:55 UTC,"I Have read in some of Mr. Milton's Writings a very beautiful Simile, whereby he represents the Books of the Fathers, as they are called in the Christian Church. Whatsoever, saith he, old Time with his huge Drag-Net, has convey'd down to us along the Stream of Ages, whether it be Shells or Shell-Fish, Jewels or Pebbles, Sticks or Straws, Sea-Weeds or Mud, these are the Ancients, these are the Fathers. The Case is much the same with the memorial Possessions of the greatest Part of Mankind. A few useful Things perhaps, mixed and confounded with many Trifles and all manner of Rubbish fill up their Memories, and compose their intellectual Possessions. 'Tis a great Happiness therefore to distinguish things aright, and to lay up nothing in the Memory but what has some just Value in it, and is worthy to be number'd as a Part of our Treasure.
(p. 252)",,23377,"","""A few useful Things perhaps, mixed and confounded with many Trifles and all manner of Rubbish fill up their Memories, and compose their intellectual Possessions. 'Tis a great Happiness therefore to distinguish things aright, and to lay up nothing in the Memory but what has some just Value in it, and is worthy to be number'd as a Part of our Treasure.""",Coinage,2014-02-05 22:16:55 UTC,""