Hume's Reception in Early America: Expanded Edition brings together the original American responses to one of Britain's greatest men of letters, David Hume. Now available as a single volume paperback, this new edition includes updated further readings suggestions and dozens of additional primary sources gathered together in a completely new concluding section.
From complete pamphlets and booklets, to poems, reviews, and letters, to extracts from newspapers, religious magazines and literary and political journals, this book's contents come from a wide variety of sources published in colonial America and the early United States between 1758 and 1850. As well as classics by Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and Alexander Hamilton, it contains scores of unknown and hard-to-locate items, many of which have not been reprinted since their original publication. These responses are divided into four parts covering Hume's Essays; his Philosophical Writings; his History of England; and his Character and Death. Each of those parts has a separate introductory essay, and every selection is introduced by a short headnote that sets the piece in its historical context and provides bibliographical references.
Packed with new insights into Hume and American thought and culture, Hume's Reception in Early America reveals the relevance and impact of Hume on American political, philosophical, historical, religious, and aesthetic debates.
Chapter 1. Dispute about the Tragedy of Douglas
Chapter 2. Natural Inferiority of Blacks
Chapter 3. Every Man Ought to be Supposed a Knave
Chapter 4. Observations on the Liberty of the Press
Chapter 5. A Complicated Aristocracy
Chapter 6. Cementing the Union
Chapter 7. First American Edition of Hume’s Essays
Chapter 9. For and Against Luxury
Chapter 10. Arts and Sciences under a Free Government
Chapter 11. Euthanasia of the British Government
Chapter 12. Jonathan Edwards a Humean
Chapter 13. Remarks Upon Hume’s Essay on Miracles
Chapter 14. Nature, and Danger, of Infidel Philosophy
Chapter 15. Celebrated Objection of Mr. Hume to the Miracles of the Gospel
Chapter 16. Hume on Experience
Chapter 17. With all your Philosophy be still a Man
Chapter 18. Hume on Cause and Effect
Chapter 19. Hume’s Science of the Mind
Chapter 21. Hume a Lubricous Philosopher
Chapter 22. A Search of Truth in the Science of the Human Mind
Chapter 23. Miracles Capable of Proof from Testimony
Chapter 25. Kant Expands upon Hume’s Scepticism
Chapter 26. An Examination of Hume’s Argument on the Subject of Miracles
Chapter 27. Review of Lawrence on Hume on Miracles
Chapter 29. A Certain Historian of Our Own Times
Chapter 31. Hume on the English Constitution
Chapter 32. Progress of Freedom
Chapter 33. Review of First American Edition of Hume’s History
Chapter 34. Parallel between Hume, Robertson and Gibbon
Chapter 36. On Hume and Robertson
Chapter 37. Hume on Tyranny: The Tudors and the Stuarts
Chapter 38. Jefferson on Hume’s History
Chapter 39. Hume’s History: An English Classic
Chapter 40. Hume’s Prose: “Tame and Uninteresting”
Chapter 41. Hume and Robertson Compared
Chapter 43. Hume on Religion as a Cause of the English Civil War
Chapter 45. Hume’s History of England
Chapter 46. Review of Hume and Smollet Abridged
Chapter 47. Sophistry and Misrepresentations of Mr Hume
Chapter 48. Constitutional History
Chapter 49. Power of the Historian
Chapter 50. Parallel between Hume and Robertson
Chapter 51. Hume: Philosophical Historian?
Chapter 52. Criticisms of Hume on the Puritans and Charles I
Chapter 53. Hume, As Historian
Chapter 54. Knickerbocker’s review of the 1849 Boston edition of Hume’s History
Chapter 55. Graham’s review of volumes 1–4 of the 1849 Boston edition of Hume’s History
Chapter 56. Graham’s review of volume 5 of the 1849 Boston edition of Hume’s History
Chapter 57. The North American Review’s review of the 1849 Boston edition of Hume’s History
Chapter 58. The New Englander’s review of the 1850 New York edition of Hume’s History
Chapter 59. Contrast between the Death of a Deist and a Christian
Chapter 60. Hume (David, Esq;) A Late Celebrated Philosopher and Historian Anonymous
Chapter 61. Hume and Bishop Horne
Chapter 62. Hume, Who Practised what he Preached
Chapter 66. On the Death of David Hume
Chapter 67. Remarks on Hume and Finley
Chapter 68. Hume’s Life: The True Practical Philosophy
Chapter 70. Contrast between the Death of a Deist and the Death of a Christian
Chapter 71. Considerations on the Contrast
Chapter 72. More of the “Contrast”
Chapter 73. Adversaria: “Hume and Finley”
Chapter 75. Anecdotes of Infidel Morality
Chapter 76. Anecdote of David Hume
Chapter 79. Beasley on Hume’s Death
Chapter 80. Gibbon, Voltaire, Hume
Chapter 82. Hume’s Sceptical Character
Chapter 83. Hume an Honorable Sceptic
Chapter 85. Hume, Voltaire, and Rousseau
Chapter 86. Hume’s Character and Writings Defended
Chapter 87. Hume’s Death Defended
Chapter 88. Hume, the Idol of Historic Taste
Chapter 89. To Bring Home your Hume
Chapter 90. Hume on Civil Liberty
Chapter 91. Hume’s History Claims Superior Notice
Chapter 92. What Think you of David Hume, Sir?
Chapter 94. Hume’s Sketch of Jane Shore
Chapter 95. Read Hume’s History
Chapter 96. Reading Hume equals Death, by Hanging
Chapter 97. Illustrating Hume’s Observations of Anne Bullen
Chapter 98. Hume’s Essay “On Miracles” Harrowed up from the Gulph of Oblivion
Chapter 99. Critical Remarks on Hume
Chapter 100. Hume Took Away all Foundation
Chapter 101. Hume on Spenser’s Faery Queen
Chapter 102. History a Proper Object of Female Pursuit
Chapter 103. Hume on the Rise of America
Chapter 104. Two Men Travelling on the Highway
Chapter 105. Historical Characters: False Representations of Nature
Chapter 106. Hannah More’s Stricture upon Hume’s History
Chapter 107. Hume’s History, Dangerous to the American Reader
Chapter 108. Professing Themselves to be Wise, They Became Fools
Chapter 109. Hume’s Housekeeper
Chapter 110. Hume’s Pretended Calm
Chapter 111. Hume and his Mother
Chapter 112. Chargeable with the Sins of Omission, and Commission
Chapter 113. An Infidel! What is That?
Chapter 114. Infidelity for the Million
Chapter 115. Life and Writings of David Hume
Chapter 116. Review of Lawrence’s Examination of Hume on Miracles
Chapter 117. A Saint Amidst the Benighted Pagans
Chapter 118. Hume and the Puritans
Chapter 119. The Independent’s Review of the 1849 Boston Edition of Hume’s History
Chapter 120. The Christian Register’s Review of the 1849 Boston Edition of Hume’s History
Chapter 121. The American Literary Magazine’s Review of the 1849 Boston Edition of Hume’s History
Chapter 122. The Christian Examiner’s Review of the 1849 Boston Edition of Hume’s History
Chapter 123. Sartain’s Union Magazine’s Review of the 1849 Boston Edition of Hume’s History
Chapter 124. The Merchant’s Magazine’s Review of the 1850 New York Edition of Hume’s History
Chapter 125. Hume’s Splendid Tomb
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