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Quotation from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume
“Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places, that history informs us of nothing new or strange in this particular”
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section VIII, Part I (Project Gutenberg #9662)
Hume's premise that human motives act with the regularity of natural causes, which grounds his reconciliation of liberty and necessity.
Citation: "Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places, that history informs us of nothing new or strange in this particular" — David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section VIII, Part I (Project Gutenberg #9662). (id an-enquiry-concerning-human-understanding-q7)
Portrait: David Hume, Allan Ramsay, Public domain.
