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call principles, which seem such only when you do
not rigidy analyze them and see hoso far they are
true, and, if true, how far applicable.
Bred in the Scotch school of verbal niceties. OF
disputatiousness, which seems to have fourshed
from the time of Duns Scotus to Causation Brown,
HUME had evidently learnt to delight in the praise
of ingenuity and the merit of confounding truth by
dint of deceptive forms of words. His youthful
residence in France served doubt to confirm the
inhdel and epicurean principles which skepicism
had founded for him. Evidently, though studious
and widely informed, his knowledge was irregular,
incomplete-hat of one not animated to labor by the
love of truth, but led by vanity or interest while
his taste for bodily ease combined with his want
OF candor to limit his researches TO just as much
fact as would serve his purpose. As writer he
has the rredeemable fault of being almost entirely
without sincerity for his speculations make YOU
continually doubt whether he any more believes
in what he is sustaining than in what he is conlut
ing. As historian BRoDIE has proved upon him,
by the testimony of his own very pencil-marks in
the books of the Advocates Library, repeated in
stances Of wilful misrepresentation. AS philo-
sopher, he surely must be a very shallow or very
wicked one who could labor to pull down the re-
ligion OF his country without being able to give it
any other. Even pagan Socrates and his followers
should have taught him better than that. Finally
as politician, he offers the anomaly of being at
once the friend despotsm and rreligion-a High
Churchman in every thing but the faith con-
founded Jacobin, except that he hated popular
freedom.


II is, then, entirely for his literary merits-which
are very high-that we admire Hume. His per-
sonal history involves that Of many of the most
remarkable people of his day. and is, therefore, full
of interest