Essays: Moral, Political and Literary

By David Hume

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This edition contains the thirty-nine essays included in Essays: Moral, Political and Literary, that made up Volume I of the 1777 posthumous Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects. It also includes ten essays that were withdrawn or left unpublished by Hume for various reasons. The two most important were deemed too controversial for the religious climate of his time.