...prefaces his theory concerning sensation and reflection, and it is from that preface that M. Degerando borrows the motto of his own speculations upon the...it all the materials of reason and knowledge ? To tin's I answer, in a word, from experience. In that all our i knowledge is founded, and from that it...

...Locke, on the question of the origin of ideas. " Let us then suppose, says Locke (B. II. Chap. I. § 2), the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all...boundless fancy of man has painted on it, with an almost endfess variety ? Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge ? To this I answer, in one...

...question, he starts the following as the great problem in philosophy : " Let us suppose," he says, " the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all...an almost endless variety ? Whence has it all the mate25* rials of Reason and knowledge ? To this I answer," he adds, " in one word, from experience...

...the mind ; for which I shall appeal to every one's observation and experience. Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all...characters, without any ideas ; how comes it to be furnished 1 Whence comes it by that vast store, which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it,...

...the mind ; for which I shall appeal to every one's observation and experience. Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all...has painted on it, with an almost endless variety I Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge 1 To this I answer, in one word, from experience...

...and Mr. Locke, another celebrated philosopher, expressed himself as follows: "Whence comes the mind by that vast store which the busy and boundless fancy...has painted on it, with an almost endless variety? I answer, in a word, from experience. In this, all knowledge is founded ; from this the whole emanates...

...truths which must be taken as axioms, being incapable of further analysis. " Whence comes it (the mind) by that vast store which the busy and boundless fancy...variety ? whence has it all the materials of reason anil knowledge ? To this I answer in one word, from experience ; on that all our knowledge is founded,...

...343. The Epistles are not now attributed to Plato. • Cf. sect. 308,315. So Locke, 'Let us suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all character, without any ideas— how comes it to be furnished?' Essay II. I. §3. But Locke does not...

...ideas we have ; thirdly, want of tracing and examining our ideas.' ' Let us suppose the mind tobe.as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas ; how comes it 1 Human Understanding, Book iv., ch. 3, § 22. B to be furnished ? Whence comes it by that vast store...

...stopping to rechallenge his premises. We give his opinion in his own words : " Let us, then, suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all...it to be furnished ? Whence comes it by that vast storehouse, which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it, with an almost endless variety...