"[...] a Storehouse, as it were, with Bags, Shelves, and Drawers, to lodge Ideas in, and, at the same Time, to compare these Impressions, such as a Seal makes upon Wax, (when Impressions are worn out, how are they to be renewed without a fresh Application of the Seal?) Footsteps, Traces, &c. and the Mind at first to a <i>Tabula rasa</i>!"
Thoughts upon thinking, or, a new theory of the human mind; wherein a physical rationale of the formation of our ideas, ... is attempted upon principles entirely new. By J. Richardson.
Richardson, J., of Newent. <u>Thoughts upon thinking, or, a new theory of the human mind; wherein a physical rationale of the formation of our ideas, ... is attempted upon principles entirely new. By J. Richardson</u>. London, 1755. Based on information from English Short Title Catalogue. Eighteenth Century Collections Online. Gale Group.<BR>http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/ECCO