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"Prose"
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Gender of Author:
"Male"
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Work title:
"An Essay on the Distinction Between the Soul and Body of Man"
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Literary Period:
"Early Modern"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"Industrial Revolution"
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"Visual Arts"
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Date: 1781
"But the difference is much greater between the ideas of sense, the materials upon which the mind first begins its work, and the truths produced by its operations, than between the rough marble, and the statue formed by the skill of PHIDIAS."
preview | full record— Rotheram, John (1725–1789)
Date: 1781
"Let matter then be allowed to furnish the first materials; the enlightened mind, which by its operations upon these discovers truth, and pursues it through all its distant connections, must have powers as far superiour to that which gave the first impression, as PHIDIAS is superiour to the marble."
preview | full record— Rotheram, John (1725–1789)