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Quotation from Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion by David Hume
“The whole presents nothing but the idea of a blind Nature, impregnated by a great vivifying principle, and pouring forth from her lap, without discernment or parental care, her maimed and abortive children”
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, Part 11 (Project Gutenberg #4583)
Philo's bleakest image of nature, which he presents as the most probable inference from the evidence.
Citation: "The whole presents nothing but the idea of a blind Nature, impregnated by a great vivifying principle, and pouring forth from her lap, without discernment or parental care, her maimed and abortive children" — David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, Part 11 (Project Gutenberg #4583). (id dialogues-concerning-natural-religion-q11)
Portrait: David Hume, Allan Ramsay, Public domain.
