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"Home, Henry, Lord Kames (1696-1782)"
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"Scottish"
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"Whig"
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"Optics"
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Literary Period:
"Early Modern"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Date: 1751
"His mind does not receive the impression of the moral world, in the same manner, as wax receives the impression of a seal. It does not reflect the image of it, in the same manner, as a mirror reflects its images: it has a peculiar cast and turn given to its conceptions, admirably ordered to exal...
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