HUME WITH HELPS TO THE STUDY OF BERKELEY ESSAYS BY THOMAS H. HUXLEY NEW YORK D. APPLETON AND COMPANY 1896 PREFACE In two essays upon the life and w which will be found in the first vo lection, I have given some reasons that he, if any one, has a claim father of modern philosophy. By his general scheme of things, hi scientific method and of the cond of certainty, are far more essenti teristically modern than those immediate predecessors and suc the adepts in some branches of fully mastered the import of his the beginning of this century. The conditions of this remark the world of thought are to be primarily, in motherwit, seconda stance. Trained by the best educat teenth century, the Jesuits; nat with a dialectic grasp and subtle they could hardly improve; and for getting at the truth, which e |