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"English"
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Religion of Author:
"Cambridge Platonist"
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Work title:
"An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding"
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"Early Modern"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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"Restoration"
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"Seventeenth Century"
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Date: 1697
"The Brain in Sleep is moist, something like that of Infants or Children: And you wou'd put a Child to a hard Task, to tell you at Night, all that had pass'd that Day in his Play or his Talk, and much more in his Thoughts."
preview | full record— Burnet, Thomas (c.1635-1715)
Date: 1697
The soul may be a "Modification or Power of the Body" so that it eventually ceases to act, "either perishing, as a Flame when the Fewel is spent; or returning to its Fountain, whatsoever it was"
preview | full record— Burnet, Thomas (c.1635-1715)