Hume's Political Discourses
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1. Front matter2. The Scott Library: Hume’s Political Discourses, by David Hume. Edited, with an Introduction by William Bell Robertson.3. INTRODUCTION.4. OF COMMERCE.5. OF REFINEMENT IN THE ARTS.6. OF MONEY.7. OF INTEREST.8. OF THE BALANCE OF TRADE.9. OF THE JEALOUSY OF TRADE.10. OF THE BALANCE OF POWER.11. OF TAXES.12. OF PUBLIC CREDIT.13. OF SOME REMARKABLE CUSTOMS.14. OF THE POPULOUSNESS OF ANCIENT NATIONS.[39]15. OF THE POPULOUSNESS OF ANCIENT NATIONS.[39] (continued 2)16. OF THE ORIGINAL CONTRACT.17. OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE.18. OF THE COALITION OF PARTIES.19. OF THE PROTESTANT SUCCESSION.20. IDEA OF A PERFECT COMMONWEALTH.21. THAT POLITICS MAY BE REDUCED TO A SCIENCE.22. OF THE FIRST PRINCIPLES OF GOVERNMENT.23. OF POLITICAL SOCIETY.24. ALPHABETICAL ARRANGEMENT OF AUTHORITIES CITED BY HUME.25. ADVERTISEMENTS, from the Walter Scott Publishing Company, Limited, London and Felling-on-Tyne.