Date: 1594
"Goodness is seen with the eye of the understanding. And the light of that eye, is reason."
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Date: 1794
"Whereas a due exercise of the faculties of the mind strengthens and improves those faculties, whether of imagination or recollection; as the exercise of our limbs in dancing or fencing increases the strength and agility of the muscles thus employed."
preview | full record— Darwin, Erasmus (1731-1802)