"Thus we may concieve how men came to employ corporeal ideas, for the most part to explain the intellectual phaenomena, and sometimes to assist even their own reflections on them. The art was reasonably invented and usefully applied. But it soon became artifice, as soon as philosophers took into their heads to affect such science as they are incapable of attaining(p 131). Figures in general, these of speech, and all others that do not typify determinatly, are unworthy of rational creatures, how much more of God? and figures that typify nothing, are nothing, or they are worse than nothing; they are so many lies, since they pretend to denote something real, where nothing real exists (p138)."
Concerning the Nature, Extent, and Reality of Human
Knowledge
Henry St. John (Viscount Bolingbroke)
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