...into a fermentation, turn themselves on all sides, and carry improvements into every art and science Thus industry, knowledge, and humanity, are linked...are commonly denominated, the more luxurious ages" (278). Durch die Konzeption "the spirit of the age" ist Hume einer der frühesten Vertreter des Gedankens...

...conversation, promote a general sociability, and foster "an encrease in humanity." As Hume puts it, "industry, knowledge, and humanity, are linked together...what are commonly denominated, the more luxurious ages."54 It is in no way surprising that Hume should consider "ancient policy" to have been "violent,...

...the very habit of conversing together, and contributing to each other's pleasure and entertainment. Thus industry, knowledge, and humanity, are linked...are commonly denominated, the more luxurious ages. (p. 278) While there seems to be no causal relation between Hume's essay and the founding of the Society...

...an easy and sociable manner; and the tempers of men, as well as their behaviour, refine apace . . . Thus industry, knowledge, and humanity, are linked together, by an indissoluble chain. 8 " The success of such clubs in bringinggentlemen together was especially crucial as, unlike England,...

...societies are formed everywhere and 'both sexes meet in an easy and sociable manner'. Thus, Hume concludes, 'industry, knowledge and humanity are linked together...are commonly denominated the more luxurious ages' (Hume 1985: 270-71). There is much in this account that a disgruntled intellectual of the early twenty-first...

...conversing together, and contributing to each other's pleasure and entertainaient. Thus industry t knowledge, and humanity, are linked together, by an...men refine upon pleasure, the less will they indulge hi excesses of any kind ; because nothing is more destructive to true pleasure than such excesses....

...Verkehr, die Sitten verfeinern sich, das soziale Empfinden wird stärker, die Menschlichkeit nimmt zu. „Thus industry, knowledge, and humanity, are linked...peculiar to the more polished, and, what are commonly denominatcd, the more luxurious ages." 58) Demnach ist Hume kein laudator temporis acti. Seine „Geschichte...

...realistic and practical explanation. In the essay "Of the Refinement of the Arts," Hume writes that "industry, knowledge, and humanity are linked together,...well as reason, to be peculiar to the more polished, what are commonly denominated, the more luxurious ages."2 However, industry, knowledge, and humanity...

...possible for men and women to meet in an easy and sociable manner, their behaviour becomes more ref1ned. Thus 'industry, knowledge, and humanity are linked together by an indissoluble chain' (Hume 1994a, p. 107). For laws, order, police, discipline cannot be perfected before human reason has...

...the very habit of conversing together, and contributing to each other's pleasure and entertainment. Thus industry, knowledge, and humanity, are linked...luxurious ages. Nor are these advantages attended \vith disadvantages that hear any proportion to them. The more men refine upon pleasure, the less will...