"[T]here is an indelible Idea of a Being absolutely perfect in the Mind of Man."

— More, Henry (1614-1687)


Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by Roger Daniel
Date
1653
Metaphor
"[T]here is an indelible Idea of a Being absolutely perfect in the Mind of Man."
Metaphor in Context
An Attempt towards finding out the true Notion or Definition of God, and a cleare Convixtion that there is an indelible Idea of a Being absolutely perfect in the Mind of Man
Categories
Provenance
Reading G. A. J. Rogers "Locke, Newton, and the Cambridge Platonists on Innate Ideas." JHI 40:2 (1979): 191-205. p. 192.
Citation
4 entries in ESTC (1653, 1655, 1662, 1712).

See An Antidote Against Atheisme, or an Appeal to the Natural Faculties of the Minde of Man, Whether There Be Not a God. By Henry More Fellow of Christ Colledge in Cambridge. (London: Printed by Roger Daniel, at Lovell’s Inne in Pater-noster-Row, anno 1653). <Link to ESTC>
Date of Entry
03/22/2005

The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.