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Religion of Author:
"Anglican (Latitudinarian with Socinian Sympathies)"
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"An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding"
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"Early Modern"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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"Restoration"
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"Seventeenth Century"
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Date: 1690, 1694, 1695, 1700, 1706
"These simple Ideas, when offered to the mind, the Understanding can no more refuse to have, nor alter, when they are imprinted, nor blot them out, and make new ones in it self, than a mirror can refuse, alter, or obliterate the Images or Ideas, which, the Objects set before it, do therein produce."
preview | full record— Locke, John (1632-1704)