"[T]he mynd of man first of hyt selfe ys a clene and pure tabul where ys no thyng payntyd or carvyd, but of hyt selfe apt & indyfferent to receyve al maner of pycturys, and image."
— Starkey, Thomas (c. 1495-1538)
Work Title
Date
1871
Metaphor
"[T]he mynd of man first of hyt selfe ys a clene and pure tabul where ys no thyng payntyd or carvyd, but of hyt selfe apt & indyfferent to receyve al maner of pycturys, and image."
Metaphor in Context
the mynd of man first of hyt selfe ys a clene and pure tabul where ys no thyng payntyd or carvyd, but of hyt selfe apt & indyfferent to receyve al maner of pycturys, and image, so mannys hath first no knolege of truth nor fyrst hath no maner of wyl wherby hyt ys more drawne to gud then to yl, but aftur as opnyon & sure persuasyon of gud & of yl growyth in by experyence & lernyng, so ever the qyl conformyth and framyth hymselfe to the knolege before goten in so much that yf hyt be persuadyd that gud ys yl and yl gud then ever the wyl chesyth the yl & levyth the gud, accordyng as sche by opynyon ys instructyd.
Categories
Provenance
Reading Wood, Neal. "Tabula Rasa, Social Environmentalism, and the 'English Paradigm'." Journal of the History of Ideas 53.4 (1992): 647-68.p. 652.
Citation
Thomas Starkey, A Dialogue Between Pole and Lupset, ed. T.F. Mayer. Cambridge: CUP, 1989. pp. 19-20.
Theme
Blank Slate
Date of Entry
10/29/2006
