The idea of an absolutely perfect being "is as distinct and indelible an Idea in the Soul, as the Idea of the five Regular Bodyes, or any other Idea whatsoever"

— More, Henry (1614-1687)


Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by Roger Daniel
Date
1653
Metaphor
The idea of an absolutely perfect being "is as distinct and indelible an Idea in the Soul, as the Idea of the five Regular Bodyes, or any other Idea whatsoever"
Metaphor in Context
[The idea of an absolutely perfect being] is as distinct and indelible an Idea in the Soul, as the Idea of the five Regular Bodyes, or any other Idea whatsoever. [The mind of man is not] a Table book in which nothing is writ
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.