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Nationality of Author:
"Scottish"
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Religion of Author:
"Church of Scotland"
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Work title:
"The Castle of Scepticism"
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Literary Period:
"Eighteenth Century"
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"Industrial Revolution"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Date: w. 1767, dated 1773 [unpublished in period]
"To show that all inferences of reason are false or uncertain, and that the understanding acting alone does entirely subvert itself, and prove by argument that by argument nothing can be proved, he has contrived a puppet of mushrooms, cork, cobwebs, gossamer, and other fungous and flimsy material...
preview | full record— Beattie, James (1735-1803)