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On the imagination. This term is obscure and confused. What, in general, imagination is. Different sorts of imagination. How its effects are dangerous. On what people call’sophistication. This quality strongly opposed to the grace of Jesus Christ. It is fatal to those possessing it, and to those valuing and admiring it in others who do not possess it.

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Malebranche, N. (1993). Chapter Twelve. In: Treatise on Ethics (1684). International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives Internationales D’histoire Des Idées, vol 133. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2480-5_13

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