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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 . . .
