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Gender of Author:
"Male"
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Religion of Author:
"Anglican (Latitudinarian with Socinian Sympathies)"
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Work title:
"An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding"
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Literary Period:
"Long Eighteenth Century"
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"Restoration"
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"Seventeenth Century"
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Metaphor Category:
"Optics"
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"Writing"
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Date: 1690, 1694, 1695, 1700, 1706
Natural "Characters engraven on the Mind" must needs be visible by themselves by their own light
preview | full record— Locke, John (1632-1704)
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)