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Date: 1761
"Did not your master Plato maintain, that all the art of man, that all philosophy could not extract from the human mind what nature had not implanted there; as all the operations in chemistry are incapable of extracting from any mixture more gold than is already contained in it?"
preview | full record— Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1712-1778); Kenrick, William (1729/30-1779)