...we can understand the pertinency of Hume's words, at the close of one of his essays : "If we take in hand any volume of divinity, or school metaphysics,...abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number? No. Commit it, then, to the flames ; for it contains nothing but sophistry and illusion." We appreciate,...

...metaphysics, for instance, let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number i No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning...fact and existence? No. Commit it then to the flames j lor it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion." 1 Permit me to enforce this most wise advice....

...advice, as he calls it, of Hume : " If we take in hand any volume of divinity or school metaphysic for instance, let us ask, Does it contain any abstract...Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matters of fact and existence ? No. Commit it, then, to the flames, for it can contain nothing but...

...saying — "When we run over the libraries, persuaded of these principles, what havoc must we make ? If we take in our hand any volume of divinity or school...metaphysics, for instance ; let us ask, Does it contain any abstraet reasoning concerning quantity or number ? No. Does it contain any cKperimental reasoning concerning...

...quantity or number 1 ' "No. ' Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter or fact or existence ? ' No. ' Commit it then to the flames ; for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.' " l Hume of course presupposes that, in his philosophy, all human ideas must be either those...

...suggests, would bo made among them I " If we take in hand any volume of divinity or school metaphysies, for instance, let us ask, 'Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number 1 ' No. ' Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter or fact or existence ? ' Uo....

...the books profess to contain, what havoc, Hume suggests, would be made among them ! " If we take in hand any volume of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance, let us ask, 'Docs it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number ? ' No. ' Does it contain any...

...he onoe says, " we run through libraries, persuaded of these principles, what havoc must we make ? If we take in our hand any volume of divinity or school...flames, for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion." ft Hume represents thus, indeed, the extreme of purely philosophical skepticism in the eighteenth...

...he once says, " we run through libraries, persuaded of these principles, what havoc must we make ? If we take in our hand any volume of divinity or school...abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number ? No. Docs it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence ? No. Commit it...

...tranquillity of mind, but they fall very much short of bringing men to it. — Tillotson. •If we take in hand any volume of divinity, or school metaphysics,...flames ; for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion. — Hume. This same philosophy is a good horse in a stable, but an arrant jade on a journey....