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Gender of Author:
"Male"
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Nationality of Author:
"Scottish"
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Work title:
"On the Soul"
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Literary Period:
"Age of Sensibility"
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"Early Modern"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"Industrial Revolution"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Date: w. 1755, 1777
"She [Nature] employs it [spiritual substance] as a kind of paste or clay; modifies it into a variety of forms and existences; dissolves after a time each modification, and from its substance erects a new form."
preview | full record— Hume, David (1711-1776)
Date: w. 1755, 1777
"And does any thing steel the breast of judges and juries against the sentiments of humanity but reflections on necessity and public interest?"
preview | full record— Hume, David (1711-1776)