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"Encyclopaedia Britannica; or, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, &c. [2nd ed.]"
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Date: 1778
"The mind of man has been by some authors called a tabula rasa, and compared to a sheet of clean paper."
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Date: 1778
"One should imagine, that the human intellect, by its original constitution, easily admits and retains some impressions, as congenial to its nature, and faithful to their objects; whilst it repels others with aversion or disdain, as subversive of its happiness, and false to the things which they ...
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Date: 1778
"Hence our frame, from its very origin, seems marked by the hand of nature with indubitable signatures of pre-eminence and distinction."
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