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"Population"
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Literary Period:
"Augustan"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Work title:
"A Treatise of Human Nature"
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Gender of Author:
"Male"
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Politics of Author:
"Whiggish"
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Genre:
"Prose"
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Nationality of Author:
"Scottish"
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Date: January 1739
"The mind is a kind of theatre, where several perceptions successively make their appearance; pass, repass, glide away, and mingle in an infinite variety of postures and situations."
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Date: January 1739
"Since the imagination, therefore, in running from low to high, finds an opposition in its internal qualities and principles, and since the soul, when elevated with joy and courage, in a manner seeks opposition, and throws itself with alacrity into any scene of thought or action where its courage...
preview | full record— Hume, David (1711-1776)