William Baird Elkin
Published: 2018-02-23
Total Pages: 190
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Excerpt from Hume: The Relation of the Treatise of Human Nature Book I, to the Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding Europe a new impulse and direction, and to whom, mediately or immediately, must be referred every sub sequent advance in philosophical speculation, was our countryman - David Hume. The skepticism of Hume, like an electric spark, sent life through the paralyzed opinions; philosophy awoke to renovated vigor, and its problems were again to be considered in other aspects, and subjected to a more searching analysis. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.