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Date: February 1791

"It has apparently burst forth like a creation from a chaos, but it is no more than the consequence of a mental revolution priorily existing in France."

— Paine, Thomas (1737-1809)

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Date: 1792

"Perhaps too, they will endeavour to support their opinion from the authority of Aristotle in his politics, where he endeavours to prove, that some men are naturally born slaves, and others free; and that the slavish part of mankind ought to be governed by the independent, in the same manner as t...

— Taylor, Thomas (1758-1835)

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Date: 1793

"Law may be supposed to have been constructed in the tranquil serenity of the soul, a suitable monitor to check the inflamed mind with which the recent memory of ills might induce us to proceed to the exercise of coercion"

— Godwin, William (1756-1836)

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Date: 1793

"The present ruling passion of the human mind is the love of distinction. "

— Godwin, William (1756-1836)

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Date: 1793

"The equalisation we are describing is farther indebted for its empire in the mind to the ideas with which it is attended of personal happiness."

— Godwin, William (1756-1836)

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Date: 1793

"If mind be now in a great degree the ruler of the system, why should it be incapable of extending its empire?"

— Godwin, William (1756-1836)

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Date: 1793

"the selfish are not governed solely by sensual gratification or the love of gain, but that the desire of eminence and distinction is in different degrees an universal passion"

— Godwin, William (1756-1836)

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Date: 1793

"Reason is the only legislator, and her decrees are irrevocable and uniform."

— Godwin, William (1756-1836)

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Date: 1793

"We are more interested in the progress of the human mind, than in that of empires."

— Disraeli, Isaac (1766-1848)

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Date: 1793

"It is here that the mind holds its empire, though it is impossible to demonstrate how this is effected, and beyond this point its power ceases."

— Valli, Eusebius (1762-1815)

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The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.