"The passion for philosophy, like that for religion, seems liable to this inconvenience, that, though it aims at the correction of our manners, and extirpation of our vices, it may only serve, by imprudent management, to foster a predominant inclination, and push the mind, with more determined resolution, towards that side, which already draws too much, by the biass and propensity of the natural temper"
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
Working from Nidditch's census, and also confirming entries in the ESTC (1748, 1750, 1751, 1756, 1758, 1760, 1764, 1767, 1768, 1770, 1772, 1777).<br>
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First published as <u>Philosophical Essays Concerning Human Understanding</u> (London: Printed for A Millar, 1748). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW119914515&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004806472.0001.000">Link to ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=LB4VAAAAQAAJ&">Link to 1748 edition in Google Books</a>&gt; "Second edition" in 1750, "third edition" in 1756. First titled <u>An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding</u> in 1758.<br>
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In ECCO-TCP, see also <u>Essays and Treatises: on Several Subjects. By David Hume, Esq</u>, 4 vols. (London: Printed for A. Millar; and A. Kincaid and A. Donaldson, at Edinburgh, 1760). &lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004802356.0001.003">Link to vol. III</a>&gt;<br>
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Text from David Hume, <u>Enquiries Concerning Human Understanding and Concerning the Principles of Morals</u>. 3rd edition. Ed. L. A. Selby-Bigge; P. H. Nidditch (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1975). Note, Nidditch reproduces the the second volume of the posthumous edition of 1777, which he has collated with the preceding 1772 edition.