 | David Hume - Economics - 1804 - 552 pages
...we run over libraries, persuaded of these principles, what havock must we make ? If we take in our hand any volume ; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance ; let us ask, Does it contain any at'trict reasoning concerning quantity or number ? No. L'jes if, contain any experimental reasoning... | |
 | David Hume - 1809 - 556 pages
...When we run over libraries, persuaded of these principles, what havoc must we make ? If we take in our hand any volume ; of divinity or school metaphysics,...abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number ? No. Dees it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence ? No. Commit it... | |
 | David Hume - 1817 - 540 pages
...When we run over libraries, persuaded of these principles, what havoc must we make ? If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics,...number ? No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concei'ning matter of fact and existence ? No. Commit it then to the flames; for it can contain nothing... | |
 | Johann Eduard Erdmann - Philosophy, Modern - 1840 - 460 pages
...When we run over libraries, persuaded of these principles, what havoc must we make? If we take in our hand any volume, of divinity or school metaphysics...concerning quantity or number? No. Does it contain experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact or existence? No. Commit it then to the flames, for... | |
 | David Hume - Philosophy - 1854 - 576 pages
...any other being might create it, or any other cause, tliat the most whimsical imagination can assign. hand any volume, of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance ; let us ask, Docs it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number ? No. Does it contain any experimental... | |
 | Ernst Kuno B. Fischer - 1857 - 540 pages
..." we use our libraries, persuaded of these principles, what havoc must we make ! If we take in our hand any volume of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance, let us ask, Does it contain any abstraet reasoning concerning quantity or number ? No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning... | |
 | John James Stewart Perowne (bp. of Worcester.) - 1869 - 180 pages
...avowed materialist. Thus for instance, he quotes with approval the following passage from one of Hume's Essays : — "If we take in hand any volume of Divinity,...any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number 1 No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence ? No. Commit... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - Protoplasm - 1869 - 30 pages
...and therefore not worth the attention of men who have work to do in the world. And thus ends one of his essays : " If we take in hand any volume of Divinity, or school metaphysics, for instance, let us ask, Docs it contain any abstract reasoninff~-cancerniíí¡[_mantíí¡¿ or nuinberJ Жо1 Uoëe it con'... | |
 | John James Stewart Perowne - Immortality - 1869 - 180 pages
...avowed materialist. Thus for instance, he quotes with approval the following passage from one of Hume's Essays: — "If we take in hand any volume of Divinity, Or School Metaphysics, for instance, let its aak, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number? No. Does it contain... | |
 | John James Stewart Perowne - Immortality - 1869 - 168 pages
...avowed materialist. Thus for instance, he quotes with approval the following passage from one of Hume's Essays : — "If we take in hand any volume of Divinity, or School Metaphysics, for instance, let MS ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number ? No. Does it contain... | |
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No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence? No. Commit it then to the flames; for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion. 
