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Quotation from An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke
“For the colour and taste of opium are, as well as its soporific or anodyne virtues, mere powers, depending on its primary qualities”
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Book II, Ch. XXIII (Project Gutenberg #10615)
Locke uses opium to show that what we call a drug's virtues are powers to affect our bodies, grounded in unknown minute structure.
Citation: "For the colour and taste of opium are, as well as its soporific or anodyne virtues, mere powers, depending on its primary qualities" — John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Book II, Ch. XXIII (Project Gutenberg #10615). (id an-essay-concerning-human-understanding-q6)
Portrait: Portrait of John Locke, Godfrey Kneller, Public domain.
