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"
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Date: 1699
Natural Conscience is a "Natural Light"
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Date: 1699
Locke denies not "that there are Natural Tendences imprinted on the Minds of Men"
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Date: 1700
"As the form of man is the image of God, so the form of a government is the image of a man"
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Date: 1700
"The soul of government, as the true and perfect image of the soul of man, is every whit as necessarily religious as rational."
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Date: 1700
"When we find out an Idea, by whose Intervention we discover the Connexion of two others, this is a Revelation from God to us, by the Voice of Reason"
preview | full record— Locke, John (1632-1704)
Date: 1700
"Affliction, the sincerest Friend, the frankest Monitor, the best Instructer and indeed the only useful School that Women are ever put to, rouses her understanding, opens her Eyes, fixes her Attention, and diffuses such a Light, such a Joy into her Mind, as not only Informs her better, but Entert...
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Date: 1700
"Now what is it that strikes a judicious Tast? Not that to be sure which injures the absent, or provokes the Company, which poisons the Mind under pretence of entertaining it, proceeding from or giving Countenance to false Ideas, to dangerous and immoral Principles."
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Date: 1700
"Wit indeed is distinct from Judgment but it is not contrary to it; 'tis rather its Handmaid, serving to awaken and fix the Attention, that so we may Judge rightly."
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Date: 1700
"She who Elects a Monarch for Life, who gives him an Authority she cannot recall however he misapply it, who puts her Fortune and Person entirely in his Power; nay even the very desires of her Heart according to some learned Casuists, so as that it is not lawful to Will or Desire any thing but wh...
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