Date: 1717

"To lead us safe thro' Error's thorny Maze, / Reason exerts her pure Etherial Rays"

— Fenton, Elijah (1683-1730)

Date: 1717

"But that bright Daughter of eternal Day [Reason], / Holds in our mortal Frame a dubious Sway."

— Fenton, Elijah (1683-1730)

Date: 1717

The brain is a "Magazine" that Fevers may seize "To calcine all her beauteous Image."

— Fenton, Elijah (1683-1730)

Date: 1717

"Yet banish'd from the Realms by Right [Reason's] own, / Passion, a blind Usurper, mounts the Throne."

— Fenton, Elijah (1683-1730)

Date: 1717

"These Instances, which true in Fact we find, / Apply we to the Culture of the Mind."

— Fenton, Elijah (1683-1730)

Date: 1717

"This Soil, in early Youth improv'd with Care, / The Seeds of gentle Science best will bear"

— Fenton, Elijah (1683-1730)