Date: 1761
"The great Mr. Locke has resembled the infant mind to a rasa tabula, as he expresses it a clean piece of paper, with no inscriptions, tho' susceptible of them."
preview | full record— Stiles, Ezra (1727-1795)
Date: 1793
"Such is the natural imbecility of the human mind, it confines us to the immediate scenes in which we are engaged, and as new objects present the past is in a degree erased from recollection."
preview | full record— Anonymous [By an American Lady]