LANGUAGE--PROPOSITIONS CONCERNING NECESSARY TRUTHS 114
CHAPTER VII.
THE ORDER OF NATURE: MIRACLES 129
CHAPTER VIII.
THEISM: EVOLUTION OF THEOLOGY 140
CHAPTER IX.
THE SOUL: THE DOCTRINE OF IMMORTALITY 165
CHAPTER X.
VOLITION: LIBERTY AND NECESSITY 183
CHAPTER XI.
THE PRINCIPLES OF MORALS 197
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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.
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