QuoteQuest“For do our Theologians pretend to make a monopoly of the word, action, and may not the atheists likewise take possession of it, and affirm that plants, animals, men, &c. are nothing but particular actions of one simple universal substance, which exerts itself from a blind and absolute necessity?”
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- Wikiquote: David Hume
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- reference · Secondary source
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Context
Part 4, Section 5
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Hume, David. (n.d.). Wikiquote: David Hume. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/David_Hume
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