David Hume [ Philosophy ]
… his career was identified by John Robertson: ‘As Hume was to discover, […] he could never exert in London the literary authority which he had come to possess in Edinburgh. There Hume's philosophy, and his example of a man of letters, made … is now known as the Scottish Enlightenment. But in London, where the Enlightenment never took hold, he was just another author competing for the attention of publishers and the public, and as vulnerable as anyone else to the slings and … of taste & sense who did not look upon your work to be as entertaining & as instructive as that of almost any other author which the world has ever produced.’ 11 11 . John Crawford to Hume, 20 January 1767. Quoted in Harris, p. 472. …
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