Published by Good Press, 2019

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       HUME.

       PART I.

       HUME'S LIFE.

       CHAPTER I.

       EARLY LIFE: LITERARY AND POLITICAL WRITINGS.

       CHAPTER II.

       LATER YEARS: THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND.

       PART II.

       HUME'S PHILOSOPHY.

       CHAPTER I.

       THE OBJECT AND SCOPE OF PHILOSOPHY.

       CHAPTER II.

       THE CONTENTS OF THE MIND.

       CHAPTER III.

       THE ORIGIN OF THE IMPRESSIONS.

       CHAPTER IV.

       THE CLASSIFICATION AND THE NOMENCLATURE OF MENTAL OPERATIONS.

       CHAPTER V.

       THE MENTAL PHENOMENA OF ANIMALS.

       CHAPTER VI.

       LANGUAGE—PROPOSITIONS CONCERNING NECESSARY TRUTHS.

       CHAPTER VII.

       THE ORDER OF NATURE: MIRACLES.

       CHAPTER VIII.

       THEISM; EVOLUTION OF THEOLOGY.

       CHAPTER IX.

       THE SOUL: THE DOCTRINE OF IMMORTALITY.

       CHAPTER X.

       VOLITION: LIBERTY AND NECESSITY.

       CHAPTER XI.

       THE PRINCIPLES OF MORALS.

       THE END

       ADVERTISEMENTS

       ENGLISH MEN OF LETTERS.

       EDITED BY JOHN MORLEY.

       OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.

       MACMILLAN'S GLOBE LIBRARY.

HUME.

       Table of Contents

PART I.

       Table of Contents

HUME'S LIFE.

       Table of Contents

CHAPTER I.

       Table of Contents

EARLY LIFE: LITERARY AND POLITICAL WRITINGS.

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      David Hume was born, in Edinburgh on the 26th of April (O.S.), 1711. His parents were then residing in the parish of the Tron church, apparently on a visit to the Scottish capital, as the small estate which his father Joseph Hume, or Home, inherited, lay in Berwickshire, on the banks of the Whitadder or Whitewater, a few miles from the border, and within sight of English ground. The paternal mansion was little more than a very modest farmhouse,[1] and the property derived its name of Ninewells from a considerable spring, which breaks out on the slope in front of the house, and falls into the Whitadder.

      Both mother and father came of good Scottish families—the paternal line running back to Lord Home of Douglas, who went over to France with the Douglas during the French wars of Henry V. and VI. and was killed at the battle of Verneuil. Joseph Hume died when David was an infant, leaving himself and two elder children, a brother and a sister, to the care of their mother, who is described by David Hume in My Own Life as "a woman of singular merit, who though young and handsome devoted herself entirely to the rearing