"Ideas of sense are but the first elements of thought: and the produce raised from these elements by the operation of the mind upon them is as far superiour to the elements themselves in variety, copiousness and use, as books are to the characters of which they are composed."
An Essay on the Distinction Between the Soul and Body of Man
<u>An Essay on the Distinction Between the Soul and Body of Man. By John Rotheram, M. A. Rector of Houghton-Le-Spring, Vicar of Seaham, and Chaplain to the Right Reverend John Lord Bishop of Durham.</u> (Newcastle upon Tyne: Printed by T. Saint, for J. Robson, New Bond-Street, London, 1781). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T85498">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;