Of The Rise And Progress Of The Arts And Sciences
Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Inspiration & Meditation, Spirituality, Fiction & Literature, Classics, Historical
| Author: | David Hume | ISBN: | 1230000033171 |
| Publisher: | AppsPublisher | Publication: | November 25, 2012 |
| Imprint: | Language: | English |
| Author: | David Hume |
| ISBN: | 1230000033171 |
| Publisher: | AppsPublisher |
| Publication: | November 25, 2012 |
| Imprint: | |
| Language: | English |
Of the Rise and Progress of the Arts and Sciences
by David Hume
Nothing requires greater nicety, in our enquiries concerning human affairs, than to distinguish exactly what is owing to chance, and what proceeds from causes; nor is there any subject, in which an author is more liable to deceive himself by false subtilties and refinements. To say, that any event is derived from chance, cuts short all farther enquiry concerning it, and leaves the writer in the same state of ignorance with the rest of mankind. But when the event is supposed to proceed from certain and stable causes, he may then display his ingenuity, in assigning these causes; and as a man of any subtilty can never be at a loss in this particular, he has thereby an opportunity of swelling his volumes, and discovering his profound knowledge, in observing what escapes the vulgar and ignorant.
Of the Rise and Progress of the Arts and Sciences
by David Hume
Nothing requires greater nicety, in our enquiries concerning human affairs, than to distinguish exactly what is owing to chance, and what proceeds from causes; nor is there any subject, in which an author is more liable to deceive himself by false subtilties and refinements. To say, that any event is derived from chance, cuts short all farther enquiry concerning it, and leaves the writer in the same state of ignorance with the rest of mankind. But when the event is supposed to proceed from certain and stable causes, he may then display his ingenuity, in assigning these causes; and as a man of any subtilty can never be at a loss in this particular, he has thereby an opportunity of swelling his volumes, and discovering his profound knowledge, in observing what escapes the vulgar and ignorant.
