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Thomas Henry Huxley. Hume (English Men of Letters Series)
Hume (English Men of Letters Series)
Table of Contents
HUME
PART I
HUME'S LIFE
CHAPTER I
EARLY LIFE: LITERARY AND POLITICAL WRITINGS
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER II
LATER YEARS: THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND
FOOTNOTES:
PART II
HUME'S PHILOSOPHY
CHAPTER I
THE OBJECT AND SCOPE OF PHILOSOPHY
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER II
THE CONTENTS OF THE MIND
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER III
THE ORIGIN OF THE IMPRESSIONS
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER IV
THE CLASSIFICATION AND THE NOMENCLATURE OF MENTAL OPERATIONS
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER V
THE MENTAL PHENOMENA OF ANIMALS
CHAPTER VI
LANGUAGE—PROPOSITIONS CONCERNING NECESSARY TRUTHS
FOOTNOTE:
CHAPTER VII
THE ORDER OF NATURE: MIRACLES
FOOTNOTE:
CHAPTER VIII
THEISM; EVOLUTION OF THEOLOGY
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER IX
THE SOUL: THE DOCTRINE OF IMMORTALITY
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER X
VOLITION: LIBERTY AND NECESSITY
CHAPTER XI
THE PRINCIPLES OF MORALS
THE END
LONDON: R. CLAY, SONS, AND TAYLOR, BREAD STREET HILL. FOOTNOTES:
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"On the other hand, the partisans of the minister make his panegyric rise as high as the accusation against him, and celebrate his wise, steady, and moderate conduct in every part of his administration. The honour and interest of the nation supported abroad, public credit maintained at home, persecution restrained, faction subdued: the merit of all these blessings is ascribed solely to the minister. At the same time, he crowns all his other merits by a religious care of the best government in the world, which he has preserved in all its parts, and has transmitted entire, to be the happiness and security of the latest posterity."—(III. 26.)
Hume sagely remarks that the panegyric and the accusation cannot both be true; and, that what truth there may be in either, rather tends to show that our much-vaunted constitution does not fulfil its chief object, which is to provide a remedy against maladministration. And if it does not—
