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"Fire"
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"On the Soul"
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"Age of Sensibility"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"Industrial Revolution"
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Date: w. 1755, 1777
"But admitting a spiritual substance to be dispersed throughout the universe, like the ethereal fire of the Stoics, and to be the only inherent subject of thought, we have reason to conclude from analogy, that nature uses it after the same manner she does the other substance, matter."
preview | full record— Hume, David (1711-1776)