"Where I would only demand of these Philosophers, Whether this their so expert <em>Smith</em> or Architect, <em>the Active Understanding</em>, when he goes about his Work, doth know what he is to do with these Phantasms before-hand, what he is to make of them, and unto what Shape to bring them? If he do not, he must needs be a bungling Workman; but if he do, he is prevented in his Design and Undertaking, his Work being done already to his Hand; for he must needs have the Intelligible Idea of that which he knows or Understands already within himself; and therefore now to what Purpose should he use his Tools, and go about to hew and hammer and anvil out these Phantasms into thin and subtle Intelligible Ideas, meerly to make that which he hath already, and which was Native and Domestick to him?"
A Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality
Only 1 entry in ECCO and ESTC (1731).<br>
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