Some exalt our species to the skies, and represent man as a kind of human demigod, who derives his origin from heaven, and retains evident marks of his lineage and descent. Others insist upon the blind sides of human nature, and can discover nothing, except vanity, in which man surpasses the other animals, whom he affects so much to despise.
— David Hume Early Modern

Empiricism, skepticism

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Of the Dignity or Meanness of Human Nature, from Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary

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1741-42

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