| |
| | David Hume (1711-76). |
 | | Ambition, avarice, self-love, vanity, friendship, generosity, public spirit: these passions, mixed in various degrees, and distributed through society, have been, from the beginning of the world, and still are, the source of all the actions and enterprises, which have ever been observed among mankind."4 |
 | | David Hume was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, 1711; he died there in 1776. |
 | | Hume's widowed mother5 devoted herself to the education of "several young children." She came from an influential family, her father being Sir David Falconer, President of the College of Justice. |
| www.blupete.com /Literature/Biographies/Philosophy/Hume.htm (3171 words) |
|