Locke's wild fancies: empiricism, personhood, and fictionality.(Poem)

From: Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation | Date: September 22, 2007| Author: | Copyright information 
 
   This idol which you term Virginity, 
   Is neither essence, subject to the eye-- 
   No, nor to any one exterior sense, 
   Nor hath it any place of residence, 
   Nor is't of earth or mold celestial, 
   Or capable of any form at all. 
   Of that which hath no being do not boast: 
   Things that are not at all are never lost. 
 
   --Christopher Marlowe, Hero and Leander 
 
   --"The things, 
   Which we see not how they are mov'd and swayd, 
   Ye may attribute to yourselves as Kings, 
   And say, they by your secret powre are made: 
   But what we see not, who shall us perswade?" 
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