English Men of Letters
EDITED BY JOHN MORLEY
HUME
HUME
BY
PROFESSOR HUXLEY
London
MACMILLAN AND CO
1879
The Right of Translation and Reproduction is Reserved
LONDON:
R. CLAY, SONS, AND TAYLOR,
BREAD STREET HILL.
CONTENTS.
- 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
- ADVERTISEMENTS.
HUME.
PART I.
HUME'S LIFE.
CHAPTER I.
EARLY LIFE: LITERARY AND POLITICAL WRITINGS.
David Hume was born, in Edinburgh on the 26th of April (O.S.), 1711. Hisparents were then residing in the parish of the Tron church, apparentlyon a visit to the Scottish capital, as the small estate which his fatherJoseph Hume, or Home, inherited, lay in Berwickshire, on the banks ofthe Whitadder or Whitewater, a few miles from the border, and withinsight of English ground. The paternal mansion was little more than avery modest farmhouse,[1] and the property derived its name[Pg 2] ofNinewells from a considerable spring, whic
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