GIFFORD LECTURE THE THIRTEENTH.

THE NEGATIVE AND HUME (continued).

The Dialogues concerning Natural Religion-Long consideration and

repeated revision of them-Their publication, Hume's anxiety

for, his friends' difficulties with-Style, Cicero-Words and

things, Quintilian-Styles, old and new-The earlier works-

The Treatise-The Enquiry, Rosenkranz-Hume's provision-

Locke, Berkeley-Ideas-Connection in them-Applied to the

question of a Deity-Of a Particular Providence-Extension of

the cause inferred, to be proportioned only to that of the given

effect-Applied to the cause of the world-Natural theology to

Hume-Chrysippus in Plutarch-Greek-The order of argu-

mentation-The ontological-Matter the necessary existence-

The cosmological answers that-Infinite contingencies insufficient

for one necessity-The teleological-Analogy inapplicable-

Hume's own example,

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GIFFORD LECTURE THE FOURTEENTH.

THE NEGATIVE AND HUME (concluded).

The teleological argument-Two moments-First, the alleged ne-

cessity of thought-It has itself no end-So matter enough-

Thought itself only a part, limited, imperfect, and in want of

explanation-Thought as thought common to us all, Grote,

Hume, Erigena, Heraclitus-The sole necessity-Second, the