Date: 1656
"Thales argued, that the Load-stone, and Amber had soules; the first because it drawes Iron, the second Straw."
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Date: 1656
"We answer, Sight is twofold, corporeal and spirituall; the first is that of Sense, the other the Intellectuall faculty, by which we agree with Angels; this Platonists call Sight, the corporeall being only an Image of this"
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Date: 1656
"So Aristotle, Intellect is that to the Soul which sight is to the Body: Hence is Minerva (Wisdom) by Homer call'd, Bright-ey'd"
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Date: 1656
"Though there be no formal commonwealth or family either in the body or in the soul of man, yet there is a subordination in the body, of the inferior members to the head; there is a subordination in the soul, of the inferior faculties to the rational will." [Metaphor is Bramhall's]
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Date: 1656
"He is too froward, that will refuse a piece of coin that is current throughout the world, because it is not stamped after his own fancy."
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Date: 1657
Fancy is "The roving, pregnant, busie, teeming sence."
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Date: 1657
Fancy is "The forge of shapes and dreams."
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Date: 1657
The fancy is "Commanding Empress of the brain, ubiquitary, faculty."
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Date: 1657
Fancy is "The immateriall Coyner. That makes a bodilesse Creation."
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