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The title page of Treatise on Human Nature by the Scottish philosopher David Hume (1711-1776). A key text of the Enlightenment, it was first published in 1740. The quote from Tacitus reads: "It is the rare happiness of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks".
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Sotheby's. (2023, December 13). Title Page, Treatise of Human Nature. World History Encyclopedia. Retrieved from https://www.worldhistory.org/image/18260/title-page-treatise-of-human-nature/
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Sotheby's. "Title Page, Treatise of Human Nature." World History Encyclopedia. Last modified December 13, 2023. https://www.worldhistory.org/image/18260/title-page-treatise-of-human-nature/.
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