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Date: 1751

"Nothing conduces so much to improve the mind, and confirm it in virtue, as being continually employed in surveying the actions of others, entering into the concerns of the virtuous, approving of their conduct, condemning vice, and showing an abhorrence at it; for the mind acquires strength by ex...

— Home, Henry, Lord Kames (1696-1782)

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Date: 1751

"As I discover power in external objects, by the eye, so I discover power in my mind, by an internal sense."

— Home, Henry, Lord Kames (1696-1782)

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Date: 1751

"The mind is like the eye. It cannot take in an object that is very great or very little."

— Home, Henry, Lord Kames (1696-1782)

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The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.