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Nearly a century later, John Locke proclaimed it as self-evident that the infant's mind was a tabula rasa, or blank tablet, waiting to be written upon.

From Time Magazine Archive

Now, a moral acid, acting upon that blank tablet of the mind, would produce a precisely similar effect.

From A Bride from the Bush by Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William)

On the left, at top, is a blank tablet.

From The Dance of Death Exhibited in Elegant Engravings on Wood with a Dissertation on the Several Representations of that Subject but More Particularly on Those Ascribed to Macaber and Hans Holbein by Douce, Francis

Gladys’s resolution was, so far, a blank tablet, not because purpose was absent, but because it was not yet become visible.

From A Bride from the Bush by Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William)

The intellect should not be compared to a blank tablet, but to a block of marble in whose veins the outlines of the statue are prefigured.

From History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Falckenberg, Richard