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Quotation from Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion by David Hume
“Were a stranger to drop on a sudden into this world, I would show him, as a specimen of its ills, a hospital full of diseases, a prison crowded with malefactors and debtors, a field of battle strewed with carcasses”
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, Part 10 (Project Gutenberg #4583)
Demea's tour of human misery for an imagined visitor.
Citation: "Were a stranger to drop on a sudden into this world, I would show him, as a specimen of its ills, a hospital full of diseases, a prison crowded with malefactors and debtors, a field of battle strewed with carcasses" — David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, Part 10 (Project Gutenberg #4583). (id dialogues-concerning-natural-religion-q7)
Portrait: David Hume, Allan Ramsay, Public domain.
