As Hume's interlocutor Cleanthes put it, we seem to see "the image of mind reflected on us from innumerable objects" in nature.
(Lewis Carroll is one of the special exceptions, his images of childhood minds being at once smoldering and still, above all, sensible — his girls think, rather than know).
We must return to Nicholas' underlying conviction that our minds are images of God's mind and that this connection between them is constant and thoroughgoing and thus should never be overlooked.
Here, we examined the processing of faces as objects vs. faces as cues to minds by contrasting images of faces possessing minds (human faces), faces lacking minds (doll faces), and non-face objects (i.e., clocks).
He famously challenges Locke's analogy of the mind as blank slate with a competing image of the mind as a block of marble whose veins already mark out the shape of Hercules (52).
The second stanza is arresting, with that strange image of the "mind" taking hold of the trees, an act both destructive and creative.
Given that dynamic, plus the belief that silence is a tacit admission of guilt, the suspect no longer fits the 18th-century image of clear mind and free will that is a fundamental tenet of the law.
There is a traumatic painting by him in the Prado of the Temptations of St Anthony; you can't help seeing this image of a mind beset by freakishness and chaos as autobiographical.
"You would do better to honor the image of his mind, which through the Holy Spirit is expressed in the gospels".
