"Lastly, from hence is that strange Parturiency that is often observed in the Mind, when it is sollicitously set upon the Investigation of some Truth, whereby it doth endeavour, by ruminating and revolving within it self as it were to conceive it within itself, to bring it forth out of its own Womb; by which it is evident, that the Mind is Naturally Conscious of its own Active Fecundity, and also that it hath a Criterion within it self, which will enable it to know when it hath sound that which it sought."
A Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality
Only 1 entry in ECCO and ESTC (1731).<br>
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