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Title: Hume
(English Men of Letters Series)

Author: T.H. Huxley

Release Date: July 13, 2006 [EBook #18819]

Language: English

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English Men of Letters

EDITED BY JOHN MORLEY

HUME

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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.

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CONTENTS.

_PART I.--HUME'S LIFE._

CHAPTER I.
PAGE
EARLY LIFE: LITERARY AND POLITICAL WRITINGS 1

CHAPTER II.

LATER YEARS: THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND 26

_PART II.--HUME'S PHILOSOPHY._

CHAPTER I.

THE OBJECT AND SCOPE OF PHILOSOPHY 48

CHAPTER II.

THE CONTENTS OF THE MIND 60

CHAPTER III.

THE ORIGIN OF THE IMPRESSIONS. 74

CHAPTER IV.

THE CLASSIFICATION AND THE NOMENCLATURE OF MENTAL
OPERATIONS 89

CHAPTER V.

THE MENTAL PHENOMENA OF ANIMALS 103

CHAPTER VI.

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.

VOLITIO