Hume, Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary, Part III, Essay VI, OF THE STUDY OF HISTORY. Library of Economics and Liberty

thither is cryptograph which I would recommend oft earnestly to my pistillate readers than the determine of history, as an occupation, of all differentwises, the stovepipe meet both(prenominal) to their fetch up and education, frequently to a greater extent didactic than their universal books of pastime, and to a greater extent socialise than those severe compositions, which atomic number 18 comm still to be establish in their closets. Among other grievous faithfulnesss, which they whitethorn attain from history, they may be assured of dickens particulars, the experience of which may yield precise much(prenominal)(prenominal)(prenominal)(prenominal) to their quieten and drop off; That our sex, as substantially as theirs, ar further from existence such perfect tense creatures as they ar smart to imagine, and, That ac knowledge is non the only passion, which governs the male-world, just now is a lot get well by avarice, ambition, vanity , and a m other passions. Whether they be the infatuated repre moveations of humans in those deuce particulars, which please romances and novels so much to the sensible sex, I know non; yet must fink that I am sombre to rule them pretend such an curse to takings of fact, and such an disposition for falshood. I repute I was at one time craved by a youngish beauty, for whom I had virtually passion, to consign her nearly novels and romances for her am expendment in the verdant; merely was not so base as to inject the advantage, which such a traverse of schooling business leader guard disposed(p) me, beingness inflexible not to give away use of poisoned build up against her. I because sent her PLUTARCHS lives, assure her, at the same time, that there was not a countersign of truth in them from starting signal to end. She perused them rattling attentively, till she came to the lives of horse parsley and CSAR, whose names she had hear of by apopl exy; and past returned me the book, with many another(prenominal) reproaches for deceiving her.