"The former [Platonic philosophy] fills the soul with intelligible light, breaks her lethargic fetters, and elevates her to the principle of things; the latter [Lockean philosophy] clouds the intellectual eye of the soul, by increasing her oblivion, strengthens her corporeal bands, and hurries her downwards into the dark labyrinths of matter."
The Philosophical and Mathematical Commentaries of Proclus
2 entries in ESTC (1788, 1792).<br>
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<u>The Philosophical and Mathematical Commentaries of Proclus; Surnamed, Platoâ€™s Successor, on the First Book of Euclidâ€™s Elements. And His Life by Marinus. Translated from the Greek. With a Preliminary Dissertation on the Platonic Doctrine of Ideas, &C. by Thomas Taylor.</u> (London: Printed for the author: and sold by T. Payne and Son; B. White and Son; L. Davis; J. Robson; T. Cadell; Leigh and Co. G. Nicol; R. Faulder; and T. and J. Egerton, 1788-89). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T143303">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;