an
ineradicable tendency to try to make things clear; while, I may further
hope, that there is nothing in what I may have said, which is
inconsistent with the logical development of Hume's principles.

My authority for the facts of Hume's life is the admirable biography,
published in 1846, by Mr. John Hill Burton. The edition of Hume's works
from which all citations are made is that published by Black and Tait in
Edinburgh, in 1826. In this edition, the Essays are reprinted from the
edition of 1777, corrected by the author for the press a short time
before his death. It is well printed in four handy volumes; and as my
copy has long been in my possession, and bears marks of much reading, it
would have been troublesome for me to refer to any other. But, for the
convenience of those who possess some other edition, the following table
of the contents of the edition of 1826, with the paging of the four
volumes, is given:--

VOLUME I.

TREATISE OF HUMAN NATURE.

Book I. _Of the Understanding_, p. 5 to the end, p. 347.

VOLUME II.

TREATISE OF HUMAN NATURE.

Book II. _Of the Passions_, p. 3-p. 215.

Book III. _Of Morals_, p. 219-p. 415.

DIALOGUES CONCERNING NATURAL RELIGION, p. 419-p. 548.

APPENDIX TO THE TREATISE, p. 551-p. 560.

VOLUME III.

ESSAYS, MORAL AND POLITICAL, p. 3-p. 282.

POLITICAL DISCOURSES, p. 285-p. 579.

VOLUME IV.

AN INQUIRY CONCERNING HUMAN UNDERSTANDING, p. 3-p. 233.

AN INQUIRY CONCERNING THE PRINCIPLES OF MORALS, p. 237-p. 431.

THE NATURAL HISTORY OF RELIGION, p. 435-p. 513.

ADDITIONAL ESSAYS, p. 517-p. 577.

As the volume and the page of the volume are given in my references, it
will be easy, by the help of this table, to learn where to look for any
passage cited, in differently arranged editions.

FOOTNOTES:

[8] "Pneumatic philosophy" must not be confounded with the theory of
elastic fluids; though, as Scottish chairs have, before now, combined
natural with civil history, the mistake would be pardonable.

[9] Burton's _Life of David Hume_, i. p. 354.

[10] Lord Macaulay, Article on History, _Edinburgh Review_, vol. lxvii.

[11] Letter to Clephane, 3rd September, 1757.