#95 White Paper

Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, [1] of all characters, without any ideas: - How comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by that vast store which the busy and [2] fancy of man has painted on it with an almost endless variety? Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer, in one word, from experience. In that, all our knowledge is [3] ; and from that it ultimately [4] itself.