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"Scottish"
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"Whiggish"
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"Prose"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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Work title:
"The Sceptic"
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Date: 1742, 1777
"As a stream necessarily follows the several inclinations of the ground, on which it runs; so are the ignorant and thoughtless part of mankind actuated by their natural propensities"
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Date: 1742, 1777
"The fabric and constitution of our mind no more depends on our choice, than that of our body."
preview | full record— Hume, David (1711-1776)
Date: 1742, 1777
"Such are effectually excluded from all pretensions to philosophy, and the medicine of the mind, so much boasted."
preview | full record— Hume, David (1711-1776)