[CONTENTS OF VOLUME FIRST.]
[Life of the Author]
[Letter from Adam Smith, LL.D. to William Strachan Esq.],
and [Latter-will and Testament of Mr Hume]
[Account of the Controversy between Hume and Rousseau]
[List of Scotticisms]
[TREATISE OF HUMAN NATURE.]
[INTRODUCTION]
[BOOK I.—OF THE UNDERSTANDING.]
[PART I.]
[OF IDEAS, THEIR ORIGIN, COMPOSITION, CONNEXION, ABSTRACTION,] &c.
[Of the Origin of our Ideas]
[Division of the Subject]
[Of the Ideas of the Memory and Imagination]
[Of the Connexion or Association of Ideas]
[Of Relations]
[Of Modes and Substances]
[Of Abstract Ideas]
[PART II.]
[OF THE IDEAS OF SPACE AND TIME.]
[Of the infinite Divisibility of our Ideas of Space and Time]
[Of the infinite Divisibility of Space and Time]
[Of the other Qualities of our Ideas of Space and Time]
[Objections answered]
[The same Subject continued]
[Of the Idea of Existence, and of external Existence]
[PART III.]
[OF KNOWLEDGE AND PROBABILITY.]
[Of Knowledge]
[Of Probability, and of the Idea of Cause and Effect]
[Why a Cause is always necessary]
[Of the component parts of our Reasonings concerning Cause and effect]
[Of the Impressions of the Senses and Memory]
[Of the Inference from the Impression to the Idea]
[Of the Nature of the Idea or Belief]
[Of the Causes of Belief]
[Of the Effects of other Relations and other Habits]
[Of the Influence of Belief]
[Of the Probability of Chances]
[Of the Probability of Causes]
[Of unphilosophical Probability]
[Of the Idea of Necessary Connexion]
[Rules by which to judge of Causes and Effects]
[Of the Reason of Animals]
[PART IV.]
[OF THE SCEPTICAL AND OTHER SYSTEMS OF PHILOSOPHY.]
[Of Scepticism with regard to Reason]
[Of Scepticism with regard to the Senses]
[Of the Ancient Philosophy]
[Of the Modern Philosophy]
[Of the Immateriality of the Soul]
[Of Personal Identity]
[Conclusion of this Book]
LIFE OF THE AUTHOR BY HIMSELF.
[MY OWN LIFE.]
It is difficult for a man to speak long of himself without vanity; therefore, I shall be short. It may be thought an instance of vanity that I pretend at all to write my life; but this Narrative shall contain little more than the History of my Writings; as, indeed, almost all my life has been spent in literary pursuits and occupations. The first success of most of my writings was not such as to be an object of vanity.
I was born the 26th of April 1711, old style, at Edinburgh. I was of a good family, both by father and mother. My father's family is a branch of the Earl of Home's or Hume's; and my ancestors had been proprietors of the estate, which my brother possesses, for several generations. My mother was daughter of Sir David Falconer, President of the College of Justice; the title of Lord Halkerton came by succession to her brother.