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Date: 1699
"Reason 'tis true, should over sense preside, / Correct our Notions and our Judgments guide; / But false Opinions, rooted in the mind / Hood-wink the Soul, and keep the Reason blind."
preview | full record— Pomfret, John (1667-1702)
Date: 1742, 1777
"Such are effectually excluded from all pretensions to philosophy, and the medicine of the mind, so much boasted."
preview | full record— Hume, David (1711-1776)
Date: 1784
"The Author of this little Essay, very philanthropically, but he fears, very vainly, wishes, that some much abler Chymist of this kind than himself, could once compose and exhibit such an attractive, and palatable preservative against all infection of the mind, as might be greedily purchased and ...
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