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The Internet Wiretap online edition of

            AN ENQUIRY CONCERNING
             HUMAN UNDERSTANDING

                     by
                 DAVID HUME

          Harvard Classics Volume 37
      Copyright 1910 P.F. Collier & Son

     Prepared by <dell@wiretap.spies.com>


About the online edition.

This was scanned from the 1910 edition and mechanically
checked against a commercial copy of the text from CDROM.
Differences were corrected against the paper edition. The
text itself is thus a highly accurate rendition. The
footnotes were entered manually.

This text is in the PUBLIC DOMAIN, released August 1993.


SECTION I
OF THE DIFFERENT SPECIES OF PHILOSOPHY.

  MORAL philosophy, or the science of human nature, 
may be treated after two different manners; each 
of which has its peculiar merit, and may contribute 
to the entertainment, instruction, and reformation of man- 
kind. The one considers man chiefly as born for action; 
and as influenced in his measures by taste . . .