A philosophical dissertation upon the inlets to human knowledge, in a letter from a gentleman in the country to his friend at London.

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A philosophical dissertation upon the inlets to human knowledge, in a letter from a gentleman in the country to his friend at London.

Creator

Philalethes [pseud.]

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http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/12351

Publisher

Re-printed by George Faulkner

Date

1740

Contributor

Neha Bhatia

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"Some have said that the human Mind contained within it the Seeds of all Sciences; the Mind is indeed a Soil in which any of these Seeds may be sown, but it must be cultivated; and without an Husbandman it will continue a mere Tabula rasa, except what the Instincts write on it, without a possibility of astronomical, geographical or other learned Observations."

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Philalethes [pseud.], “A philosophical dissertation upon the inlets to human knowledge, in a letter from a gentleman in the country to his friend at London.,” Enlightenmens, accessed March 22, 2023, http://enlightenmens.lmc.gatech.edu/items/show/282.

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