Note 23 — MY FATHER’S MEMOIR. A LETTER TO JOHN CAIRNS, D. D.
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David Hume’s Treatise on Human Nature he knew thoroughly, and read it carefully during his last illness. He used to say it not only was a miracle of intellectual and literary power for a man of twenty-eight, but contained the essence of all that was best on the philosophy of mind; “It’s all there, if you will think it out.” Return