Date: 1710, 1714
"Every Man indeed who is not absolutely beside himself, must of necessity hold his Fancys under some kind of Discipline and Management."
preview | full record— Cooper, Anthony Ashley, third earl of Shaftesbury (1671-1713)
Date: September 10, 1726
"Now, according to my supposition, there being no active intelligent Being, who, by his Presence and Superintendency, governs and directs the Course of those vagabond Images, every thing in the Brain resembles the fortuitous concourse of Atoms."
preview | full record— Arbuckle, James (d. 1742)