That book "fell dead-born from the press," according to this man, though he had more success with later works like An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding.
During his lifetime, this man withdrew essays he had written on "impudence and modesty" and "the immortality of the soul," while allowing such essays as "Of the Dignity or Meanness of Human Nature" and "Of the Populousness of Ancient Nations" to remain in print. Better known are such essays as "Of Superstition and Enthusiasm" and "Of the Standard of Taste," which appear in his Essays Moral, Political, and Literary. In his autobiographical "My Own Life" he describes his "retreat in France," which was spent at Reims and La Fleche, where he composed his first major work, a book whose three parts consider the understanding, the passions, and the morals. That book "fell dead-born from the press," according to this man, though he had more success with later works like An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. FTP, name this British thinker who wrote A Treatise of Human Nature.
During his lifetime, this man withdrew essays he had written on "impudence and modesty" and "the immortality of the soul," while allowing such essays as "Of the Dignity or Meanness of Human Nature" and "Of the Populousness of Ancient Nations" to remain in print.
David Hume