Date: 1652
"And truly he might as well phansie such implanted Ideas, such seeds of light in his external eye, as such seminal principles in the eye of the minde."
preview | full record— Culverwell, Nathanael (bap. 1619, d. 1651)
Date: January 1739
"The identity, which we ascribe to the mind of man, is only a fictitious one, and of a like kind with that which we ascribe to vegetables and animal bodies."
preview | full record— Hume, David (1711-1776)