"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."
Of the Immortality of the Soul [from Essays Moral, Political, and Literary]
At least 6 entries in ESTC (1777, 1779, 1780, 1784, 1793, 1800).<br>
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First published in the posthumous <u>Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects. In Two Volumes. By David Hume, Esq; ... . Containing Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary.</u> (London: Printed for T. Cadell, in the Strand: and A. Donaldson, and W. Creech, at Edinburgh, 1777). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T33493">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;<br>
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Unpublished 1755 version owned by National Library of Scotland serves as copy text in Reading <u>Essays, Moral, Political and Literary</u>, rev. ed. (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1987).