hat the following occurs--

"Where any accident, as a difference in language or religion, keeps
two nations, inhabiting the same country, from mixing with one
another, they will preserve during several centuries a distinct and
even opposite set of manners. The integrity, gravity, and bravery
of the Turks, form an exact contrast to the deceit, levity, and
cowardice of the modern Greeks."--(III. 233.)

The question of the influence of race, which plays so great a part in
modern political speculations, was hardly broached in Hume's time, but
he had an inkling of its importance:--

"I am apt to suspect the Negroes to be naturally inferior to the
Whites. There scarcely ever was a civilised nation of that
complexion, nor even any individual, eminent either in action or
speculation.... Such a uniform and constant difference [between the
negroes and the whites] could not happen in so many countries and
ages, if nature had not made an original distinction between these
breeds of men.... In Jamaica, indeed, they talk of one Negro as a
man of parts and learning; but it is likely he is admired for
slender accomplishments, like a parrot who speaks a few words
plainly."--(III. 236.)

The _Essays_ met with the success they deserved. Hume wrote to Henry
Home in June, 1742:--

"The Essays are all sold in London, as I am informed by two letters
from English gentlemen of my acquaintance. There is a demand for
them; and, as one of them tells me, Innys, the great bookseller in
Paul's Churchyard, wonders there is not a new edition, for he
cannot find copies for his customers. I am also told that Dr.
Butler has everywhere recommended them; so that I hope that they
will have some success."

Hume had sent Butler a copy of the _Treatise_ and had called upon him,
in London, but he was out of town; and being shortly afterwards made
Bishop of Bristol, Hume seems to have thought that further advances on
his part might not be well received.

Greatly comforted by this measure of success, Hume remained at
Ninewells, rubbing up his Greek, until 1745; when, at the mature age of
thirty-four, he made his entry into practical life, by becoming
bear-leader to the Marquis of Annandale, a young nobleman of feeble
body and feebler mind. As might have been predicted, this venture was
not more fortunate than his previous ones; and, after a ye