"The application of our Thoughts to other Subjects is like looking upon the Rays of the Sun as it shines to us from a Wall, or upon the Image of it as it returns from a Watry Mirrour, but this is looking up directly against the <em>Fons veri lucidus</em>, the bright Source of Intellectual Light and Truth, and staring, with a full-levell'd Eye, the great Luminary of Spirits in the very Face."
An Essay Towards the Theory of the Ideal or Intelligible World
At least 3 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1701, 1704, 1722). [Part 2 published in 1704].<br>
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<u>An Essay Towards the Theory of the Ideal or Intelligible World. Design'd for Two Parts. The First Considering It Absolutely in It Self, and the Second in Relation to Human Understanding. Part 1. by John Norris, Rector of Bemerton, Near Sarum.</u> (London: Printed for S. Manship, at the Ship in Cornhill, near the Royal-Exchange; and W. Hawes, at the Rose in Ludgate-Street near the West-End of St. Paul’s Church, 1701). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T76546">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com.proxy.its.virginia.edu/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW119389091&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=bUpIAAAAMAAJ">Link to Vol. I in Google Books</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=AgdQAAAAYAAJ">Link to Vol. II in Google Books</a>&gt;