"It is a favourite maxim with Mr LOCKE, as it was with some ancient philosophers, that the human soul, previous to education, is like a piece of white paper, or tabula rasa, and this simile, harmless as it may appear, betrays our great modern into several important mistakes."
An Essay on the Nature and Immutability of Truth; in Opposition to Sophistry and Scepticism
10 entries in ESTC (1770, 1771, 1772, 1773, 1774, 1777, 1778).<br>
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Beattie, James. <u>An Essay on the Nature and Immutability of Truth; in Opposition to Sophistry and Scepticism</u> (Edinburgh: A Kincaid & J. Bell, 1770). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&contentSet=ECCOArticles&type=multipage&tabID=T001&prodId=ECCO&docId=CW121716299&source=gale&userGroupName=viva_uva&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;<br>
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Text from corrected and enlarged second edition of 1771. &lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=1ekYAAAAYAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>&gt;