Thomas Henry Huxley
Hume (English Men of Letters Series)
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4064066241704
Table of Contents
EARLY LIFE: LITERARY AND POLITICAL WRITINGS.
LATER YEARS: THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND.
THE OBJECT AND SCOPE OF PHILOSOPHY.
THE ORIGIN OF THE IMPRESSIONS.
THE CLASSIFICATION AND THE NOMENCLATURE OF MENTAL OPERATIONS.
THE MENTAL PHENOMENA OF ANIMALS.
LANGUAGE—PROPOSITIONS CONCERNING NECESSARY TRUTHS.
THE ORDER OF NATURE: MIRACLES.
THEISM; EVOLUTION OF THEOLOGY.
THE SOUL: THE DOCTRINE OF IMMORTALITY.
VOLITION: LIBERTY AND NECESSITY.
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. 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