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“VARIETY … Anecdote of Hume,” Ladies’ Literary Cabinet, vol. 4 (1821), p. 126.
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Anecdote of Hume. — Hume often met with illiberal treatment from the clergy of Scotland, who took every opportunity to asperse his character on account of his free opinions. Observing a certain zealot of this class always leave the room when he entered it, he one day took an opportunity to address him as follows: “I am surprised, friend, to find you express an aversion to me; I wish to be upon good terms with you here, as it is very probable we shall be doomed to the same place hereafter — you believe I shall be damned for want of faith, and I fear you will be damned for want of charity!”