Date: 1710, 1734
"It is evident to any one who takes a survey of the objects of human knowledge, that they are either ideas actually imprinted on the senses"
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Date: 1710, 1734
"That number is entirely the creature of the mind, even though the other qualities be allowed to exist without, will be evident to whoever considers, that the same thing bears a different denomination of number, as the mind views it with different respects."
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Date: 1710, 1734
Parcels of matter may be "so many occasions to remind" God "when and what ideas to imprint on our minds"
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Date: 1710, 1734
A prejudice may be "riveted so deeply in our thoughts, that we can scarce tell how to part with it"
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Date: 1710, 1734
"For example, the will is termed the motion of the soul: this infuses a belief, that the mind of man is as a ball in motion, impelled and determined by the objects of sense, as necessarily as that is by the stroke of a racket."
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