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Date: 1729
"The Brain of a Child, newly born, is Charte Blanche; and, as you have hinted very justly, we have no Ideas, which we are not obliged for to our Senses."
preview | full record— Mandeville, Bernard (bap. 1670, d. 1733)
Date: 1729
"But as the first Images are lost, so they are continually succeeded by new ones; and the Brain at first serves as a Slate to Cypher, or a Sampler to work upon."
preview | full record— Mandeville, Bernard (bap. 1670, d. 1733)