"Education, and good company are necesary to polish the mind----but can any education, or any company, convey a fine understanding, where it has not been given by nature?"
— Caulfield (fl. 1778)
Author
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for J. Dodsley
Date
1778
Metaphor
"Education, and good company are necesary to polish the mind----but can any education, or any company, convey a fine understanding, where it has not been given by nature?"
Metaphor in Context
[...] What do we mean when we say that such a person "has fine natural parts?" Education, and good company are necesary to polish the mind----but can any education, or any company, convey a fine understanding, where it has not been given by nature? or can any want of education, or any company, convey a fine understanding, where it has not been given by nature? or can any want of education &c. prevent a person's shewing a good understanding, if it has been given by providence? Woodhouse, the shoe-maker of Hales Owen, (among thousands of others) is a proof that it cannot for [end page 176] without having had any education, or advantage whatever, he wrote poems which surprized all who read them. [...] and does not this demonstrate that there is a something in the mind, which no education can give or take away? [...]
(p. 176-7)
(p. 176-7)
Categories
Provenance
Gale's Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO).
Citation
Only 1 entry in ESTC (1778).
See An Essay on the Immateriality and Immortality of the Soul, and Its Instinctive Sense of Good and Evil; in Opposition to the Opinions Advanced in the Essays Introductory to Dr. Priestley's Abridgment of Dr. Hartley's Observations on Man. to Which Are Added, Strictures on Dr. Hartley's Theory; ... With an Appendix, in Answer to Dr. Priestley's Disquisitions on Matter and Spirit. by the Author of the Letters in Proof of a Particular, As Well As a General Providence, Which Were Addressed to Dr. Hawkesworth ... Under the Signature of a Christian (London: Printed for J. Dodsley, 1778). <Link to ESTC>
See An Essay on the Immateriality and Immortality of the Soul, and Its Instinctive Sense of Good and Evil; in Opposition to the Opinions Advanced in the Essays Introductory to Dr. Priestley's Abridgment of Dr. Hartley's Observations on Man. to Which Are Added, Strictures on Dr. Hartley's Theory; ... With an Appendix, in Answer to Dr. Priestley's Disquisitions on Matter and Spirit. by the Author of the Letters in Proof of a Particular, As Well As a General Providence, Which Were Addressed to Dr. Hawkesworth ... Under the Signature of a Christian (London: Printed for J. Dodsley, 1778). <Link to ESTC>
Date of Entry
07/18/2005
