The most perfect philosophy of the natural kind is of little use to us, if it do not enable us to correct our errors, and regulate our passions.
Empiricism, skepticism
The most perfect philosophy of the natural kind is of little use to us, if it do not enable us to correct our errors, and regulate our passions.
Empiricism, skepticism
A Treatise of Human Nature, Introduction
1739-1740
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