"The Soul is placed in the Body like a rough Diamond and must be polish'd, or the lustre of it will never appear."
— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
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Place of Publication
London
Date
1697
Metaphor
"The Soul is placed in the Body like a rough Diamond and must be polish'd, or the lustre of it will never appear."
Metaphor in Context
The Soul is placed in the Body like a rough Diamond and must be polish'd, or the lustre of it will never appear: and 'tis manifest that as the Rational Soul distinguishes us from Brutes, so Education carries on the distinction, and makes some less brutish than others: This is too evident to need any demonstration.
(p. 283)
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Provenance
Reading D. P. Leinster-Mackay's The Educational World of Daniel Defoe. ELS. University of Victoria, 1981. p. 60.
Date of Entry
03/21/2007
