HUME
^4 Faculty of Advocates: the Advocates^ Library in
Edinburgh, now the National Library of Scotland, is one
of ihe libraries that receive a copy of all books published
in Great Britain. It was presented to the nation by the
Scottish Faculty of Advocates.
^ Commines . . . Clarendon . . . Bossuet . . . Montes-
quieu : Philippe de Commines (1445-1509), chronicler of the
reigns of Louis XI and Charles VIII; Clarendon : see note
above, p. 150; Jacques Benign e Bossnet (1627-1704),
whose Discourse on Universal History traces the hand of
God in the current of human affairs ; CIiarles Louis de
Secondat de Montesquieu (1689-1755), political philosopher,
author of the famous Persian Letters.
^6 Voltaire : (1694-1778) condemned organized systems of
religion ; his sceptical philosophy had great influence on
European thought. His real name was Francois Marie
Arouet.
7 0 altiiudo ! : Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881), editor of
Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches (1850). The Latin
word f 0 Sublimity ') suggests the apostrophizing hero-
worshipping style of treating his subject. See Sir Thomas
Browne, Religio Medici, i, ix.
^8 philosophies : or philosophes, the eighteenth century
French school of sceptical writers.
9 dc- rigueur : the correct, the fashionable, thing.
^10 charade : a piece of amateur acting. The sfcory is
told by Madame d'Epinay.
^n ' Eh bien/ etc. : ' Well, well, ladies, there you are
then! '
^12 charge d'affaires:   a sort of deputy or mider-
ambassador.
^ Castle rock : in Edinburgh.
^14 Essay on Miracles : included in the Enquiry concerning
Human Understanding (1748). Here Hume ' argues that
the evidence for miracles is necessarily inferior to the
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