"The question is, how this Familiarity arises? and how the Cabinet comes to be sensible of any thing that's put into it? A Scritore knows nothing of the Papers which the careful Banker locks up in it? Or a Glass, tho' it may be said to receive the Image of a Beau, and he really sees somewhat of himself in it; yet it can hardly be said to see any thing of him. It would rather seem the Mind had some native Light of its own, which is awaken'd we know not how, and flies out, as it were, thro' the Senses to the things it apprehends or lays hold on."
Essays Moral and Philosophical, on Several Subjects
Three entries in ESTC (1734, 1762, 1763).<br>
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See <u>Essays Moral and Philosophical, on Several Subjects: Viz. A View of the Human Faculties.</u> (London: Printed for J. Osborn and T. Longman, 1734). &lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004870449.0001.000">Link to ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;