The mind, by being open to conviction, and ready to embrace truth for its own sake, has a free use of its faculties, and a fair opportunity of attaining to a great perfection.
Empiricism, natural rights
The mind, by being open to conviction, and ready to embrace truth for its own sake, has a free use of its faculties, and a fair opportunity of attaining to a great perfection.
Empiricism, natural rights
Of the Conduct of the Understanding
1706 (posthumous)
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