Nothing is more usual and more natural for those, who pretend to discover anything new to the world in philosophy and the sciences, than to insinuate the praises of their own systems, by decrying all those, which have been advanced before them. The approbation of the public I consider as the greatest reward of my labours but am determined to regard its judgment, whatever it be, as my best instruction. If I have the good fortune to meet with success, I shall proceed to the examination of morals, politics, and criticism which will complete this Treatise of Human Nature. The subjects of the understanding and passions make a complete chain of reasoning by themselves and I was willing to take advantage of this natural division, in order to try the taste of the public. The reader must only observe, that all the subjects I have there planned out to myself, are not treated of in these two volumes. My design in the present work is sufficiently explained in the introduction. Part IV-Of the Skeptical and Other Systems of Philosophy Part I-Of Ideas, Their Origin, Composition, Connection, Abstraction, Etc.
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