"Without the help and assistance of the senses [the mind] can achieve nothing more than a labourer working in darkness behind shuttered windows"
— Locke, John (1632-1704)
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Work Title
Date
w. 1663, 1954 publication
Metaphor
"Without the help and assistance of the senses [the mind] can achieve nothing more than a labourer working in darkness behind shuttered windows"
Metaphor in Context
Without the help and assistance of the senses [the mind] can achieve nothing more than a labourer working in darkness behind shuttered windows
(p. 139)
(p. 139)
Categories
Provenance
Reading S. H. Clark's "Locke and Metaphor Reconsidered" in JHI 59:2 (1998) p. 247
Citation
Reading Essays on the Law of Nature (Oxford UP, 2002).
Date of Entry
03/21/2005
