"<i>Intellect, as has he </i>[Aristotle]<i> had said before, was in </i>CAPACITY, <i>after a certain manner, the several Objects intelligible; but was in </i>ACTUALITY <i>no one of them</i>, <i>until it first comprehended it</i>--<i>and that it was the same with the Mind or </i>HUMAN UNDERSTANDING [in it's original State] <i>as with a </i>RASA TABULA <i>or</i> WRITING TABLET, <i>in which nothing as yet had been </i>ACTUALLY <i>written."</i>
Philosophical Arrangements by James Harris Esq.
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