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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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"A Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality"
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Date: 1731
"And hence it comes to pass, that in Speech, Metaphors and Allegories do so exceedingly please, because they highly gratify this Phantastical Power of Passive and Corporeal Cogitation in the Soul, and seem thereby also something to raise and refresh the Mind it self, otherwise lazy and ready to f...
preview | full record— Cudworth, Ralph (1617-1688)