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David Hume

Historian and philosopher of the Scottish Enlightenment

In his forties, David Hume was charged with heresy, and failed to obtain the Chair of Moral Philosophy at the University of Glasgow. When he was 50, all of his works were listed in the Index Librorum Prohibitorum. And yet in his autobiography, none of these disappointments are mentioned. He spoke instead of his plan, at the age of 23, of regarding every object as contemptible, except the improvement of his talents in literature. To this plan he adhered, with cheerfulness and mildness of temper. He was the preeminent thinker of the eighteenth century.

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