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Date: 1637
"I kept uprooting from my mind any errors that might previously have slipped into it."
preview | full record— Descartes, René (1596-1650)
Date: 1637
"I supposed, too, that in the beginning God did not place in this body any rational soul or any other thing to serve as a vegetative or sensitive soul, but rather that he kindled in its heart one of those fires without light which I had already explained, and whose nature I understood to be no di...
preview | full record— Descartes, René (1596-1650)
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)
