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Reason

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  • A woman representing Wisdom (?) giving to a philosopher (Aristotle?) the key to the treasure-house of Reason, to distinguish man from the beasts. Etching.
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    A view of reason and passion, as in their original and present state. A sermon preach'd before the Right Honourable The Lord-Mayor, Aldermen, and Sheriffs of the city of London, at the Cathedral-Church of St. Paul, on Sunday, December 21, 1735. By John Tottie, M. A. Fellow of Worcester-College in Oxford.

    Tottie, John, 1711?-1774. | Date: MDCCXXXVI. [1736]
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    The Nature, extent, and province of human reason, considered.

    | Date: 1792
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    Powers of the rational : science, technology, and the future of thought / Dominique Janicaud ; translated by Peg Birmingham and Elizabeth Birmingham.

    Janicaud, Dominique, 1937-2002. | Date: [1994], ©1994
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    Rhetoric in(to) science : style as invention in inquiry / Heather Brodie Graves.

    Graves, Heather, 1958- | Date: [2005], ©2005
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    The strength and weakness of human reason: or, the important question about the sufficiency of reason to conduct mankind to religion and future happiness, Argued between an Inquiring Deist and a Christian Divine: and The Debate Compromis'd and Determin'd to the Satisfaction of Both, By an impartial moderator.

    Watts, Isaac, 1674-1748. | Date: M.DCC.XXXVII. [1737]
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