Essays On Suicide And The Immortality Of The Soul
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full text: ESSAYS ON SUICIDE AND THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL: THE COMPLETE 1783 EDITION David Hume 5/1/95 Copyright 1995, James Fieser (jfieser@utm.edu). See end note for details on copyright and editing conventions. This is a working draft; please report errors.[1] Editor's Note: Hume's essays on the suicide and the immortality of the soul were completed around 1755 and printed as part of a book of essays titled <Five Dissertations>. When pre-release copies of <Five Dissertations> provoked controversy among influential readers, Hume and his printer Andrew Millar agreed to have the two essays physically removed from the printed copies. They were replaced with an essay titled "Of the Standard of Taste," and the book of essays appeared in 1757 under the title <Four Dissertations>. Rumors about the two withdrawn essays circulated for years, and clandestine copies appeared anonymously in French (1770) and later in English (1777). In 1783 the two essays were published more openly, and this time with Hume's name attached. Like the 1770 and 1777 publications, the 1783 publication was not authorized by Hume. Along with Hume's two essays, the anonymous editor of the 1783 edition included his own critical notes to Hume's two pieces, and excerpts from Rousseau's <La Nouvelle Heloise> on the subject of suicide. The contents, then, of the 1883 publication are as follows: Preface p. iii Essay I. On Suicide (Hume) p. 1 Essay II. On the immortality of the soul (Hume) p. 23 Anti-Suicide (anonymous editor) p. 39 Immortality of the Soul (anonymous editor) p. 53 Letter 114 from Rousseau's <Eloisa> p. 67 Letter 115 from Rousseau's <Eloisa> p. 90 A copy of the original two essays as they were printed in <Five Dissertations> is in the possession of the National Library of Scotland. That copy contains nineteen corrections in Hume's hand and is Hume's final surviving revision of the essays. None of these corrections appear in the 1783 edition. * * * * ESSAYS ON <SUICIDE>, AND <THE IMMORTALITY> OF THE …