"This is what I quote them for, and this is all my Argument demands; the deepest Search into the Region of Cause and Consequence, has found out just enough to leave the wisest Philosopher in the dark, to bewilder his Head, and drown his Understanding."
— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
Author
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
G. Sawbridge
Date
1704
Metaphor
"This is what I quote them for, and this is all my Argument demands; the deepest Search into the Region of Cause and Consequence, has found out just enough to leave the wisest Philosopher in the dark, to bewilder his Head, and drown his Understanding."
Metaphor in Context
This is what I quote them for, and this is all my Argument demands; the deepest Search into the Region of Cause and Consequence, has found out just enough to leave the wisest Philosopher in the dark, to bewilder his Head, and drown his Understanding. You raise a Storm in Nature by the very Inquiry; and at last, to be rid of you, she confesses the Truth, and tells you, It is not in Me, you must go Home and ask my Father.
(p. 12)
(p. 12)
Categories
Provenance
Searching in C-H Lion
Citation
Daniel Defoe, The Storm: Or a Collection of Casualties and Disasters Which happen'd in the Late Dreadful Tempest, Both By Sea and Land. (London: Printed for G. Sawbridge, 1704)
Text from Richard Hamblyn's edition of The Storm (Penguin Classics)
Text from Richard Hamblyn's edition of The Storm (Penguin Classics)
Date of Entry
06/17/2013
