Excerpt from Hume: The Relation of the Treatise of Human Nature, Book I, to the Inquiry Concerning Human UnderstandingEurope a new impulse and direction, and to whom, mediately or immediately, must be referred every sub sequent advance in philosophical speculation, was our countryman - David Hume. The Skepticism of Hume, like an electric spark, sent life through the paralyzed opinions, philosophy awoke to renovated vigor, and its problems were again to be considered in other aspects, and subjected to a more searching analysis.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.