"Human minds are smaller streams, which, arising at first from the ocean [of Divintity], seek still, amid all wanderings, to return to it, and to lose themselves in that immensity of perfection"
— Hume, David (1711-1776)
Author
Place of Publication
London and Edinburgh
Date
1777
Metaphor
"Human minds are smaller streams, which, arising at first from the ocean [of Divintity], seek still, amid all wanderings, to return to it, and to lose themselves in that immensity of perfection"
Metaphor in Context
The Divinity is a boundless Ocean of Bliss and Glory: Human minds are smaller streams, which, arising at first from the ocean, seek still, amid all wanderings, to return to it, and to lose themselves in that immensity of perfection. When checked in this natural course, by vice or torrent, do then spread horror and devastastion on the neighboring plains.
(p. 156)
(p. 156)
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Provenance
Reading
Citation
Hume, David. Essays Moral, Political, and Literary. Ed. Eugene F. Miller. Liberty Fund: Indianapolis, 1985.
Date of Entry
03/01/2004
