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Date: 1699

"Yet so you [Locke] seem to represent them and their Idea's; and you call them 'Characters, fair Characters, indeleble Characters, stampt, imprinted, engraven' in the Mind; for all those Expressions you use upon that occasion."

— Burnet, Thomas (c.1635-1715)

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Date: 1699

Locke denies not "that there are Natural Tendences imprinted on the Minds of Men"

— Burnet, Thomas (c.1635-1715)

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Date: 1700

"Better the Mind no Notions had retain'd, / But still a fair Unwritten Blank remain'd; / For now, who Truth from Falshood wou'd discern; / must first disrobe the Mind, and all Unlearn."

— Pomfret, John (1667-1702)

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The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.