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"Whiggish"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Work title:
"An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals"
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Date: 1751, 1777
"Virtue, placed at such a distance, is like a fixed star, which, though to the eye of reason, it may appear as luminous as the sun in his meridian, is so infinitely removed, as to affect the senses, neither with light nor heat."
preview | full record— Hume, David (1711-1776)