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Genre:
"Prose"
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Nationality of Author:
"English"
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Work title:
"An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding"
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Literary Period:
"Early Modern"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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"Restoration"
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"Seventeenth Century"
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Metaphor Category:
"Body"
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"Writing"
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Date: 1690, 1694, 1695, 1700, 1706
"We may as well think the use of Reason necessary to make our Eyes discover visible Objects, as that there should be need of Reason, of the Exercise thereof, to make the Understanding see, what is Originally engraven in it"
preview | full record— Locke, John (1632-1704)
Date: 1690, 1694, 1695, 1700, 1706
"This would be, to make Nature take Pains to no Purpose; Or, at least, to write very ill; since its Characters could not be read by those Eyes, which saw other things very well: and those are very ill supposed the clearest parts of Truth, and the Foundations of all our Knowledge."
preview | full record— Locke, John (1632-1704)