...mistaken in transferring to the former most of the observations which you have made with regard to the latter. Mankind are so much the same, in all times...constant and universal principles of human nature by showing men in all varieties of circumstances and situations, and furnishing us with materials from...

...mistaken in transferring to the former most of the observations which you have made with regard to the latter. Mankind are so much the same, in all times...constant and universal principles of human nature. (Qtd. in Hampson 109) 4 The Romantic Metaphysics of Don DeLillo 1. See, for example, Lentricchia, "Tales"...

...course of life of the Greeks and Romans? Study well the temper and actions of the French and English ... Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places,...constant and universal principles of human nature«. Here history is not made to fit into an a priori set of categories of pure reason. Hume's constant...

...schools. Thus the empiricist David Hume flatly asserts in An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: "Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places,...constant and universal principles of human nature." Many of the 19th century pathfinders in the social sciences clung to this old standby of "the constant...

...made about the two later ones. "Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places," Hume observed, "that history informs us of nothing new or strange...constant and universal principles of human nature by showing men in all varieties of circumstances and situations, and furnishing us with materials from...

...belief that human nature was at all times and in all places the same - in the time-worn words of Hume: 'Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places,...history informs us of nothing new or strange in this particular.'173 In religious terms, this axiom amounts to what Toland had observed some forty-four...

...transferring to the former most of the observations you have made in regard to the latter. Mankind are much the same, in all times and places, that history...us of nothing new or strange in this particular." Quoted by Neff, 230 n. 13. Notes 203 14. The idea goes all the way back to Hippocrates ( On Airs, Waters,...

...eminent Enlightenment philosopher-historians as Hume and Voltaire still believed that, as Hume puts it, "mankind are so much the same in all times and places that history informs us of nothing xiv new or strange." What Herder discovered, or at least saw more clearly and fully than anyone before,...

...think the intellectual faculties are made and operate alike in most men." And Hume writes: Mankind is so much the same, in all times and places, that history informs us of nothing new and particular."6 This is more than anything a confession of faith, one which Hume shared with many...

...of life of the Greeks and Romans? Study well the temper and actions of the French and English. . . . Mankind are so much the same in all times and places, that history informs us nothing new or strange in this particular. Its chief use is to discover the constant and universal...