"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."
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Unpublished 1755 version owned by National Library of Scotland serves as copy text in Reading 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).