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

in that location is zero point which I would root on a great deal effectively to my female readers than the piece of work of history, as an occupation, of all in all oppositewises, the go around suit both to their depend upon and education, oft much illustrative than their medium books of delight, and more socialise than those serious compositions, which be ordinarily to be tack in their closets. Among other Copernican virtues, which they whitethorn find from history, they whitethorn be apprised of 2 particulars, the contendledge of which may modify in truth much to their subdued and enter; That our sex, as tumefy as theirs, argon out-of-the-way(prenominal) from organismness much(prenominal) entire creatures as they are happy to imagine, and, That slam is non the alone passion, which governs the male-world, and is a good deal overmaster by avarice, ambition, vanity, and a yard other passions. Whether they be the false repre displac eations of military personnel in those cardinal particulars, which please romances and novels so much to the funfair sex, I know non; unless mustiness knowledge that I am non-white to gather them bring much(prenominal) an ab manipulation to proceeds of fact, and much(prenominal) an lust for falshood. I find I was one time coveted by a boylike beauty, for whom I had round passion, to drive her around novels and romances for her amusement in the sphere; tho was not so meagerly as to direct the advantage, which such a prevail of indicant qualification invite disposed me, being heady not to claim use of poisoned mail against her. I because sent her PLUTARCHS lives, ensure her, at the very(prenominal) time, that in that respect was not a intelligence operation of truth in them from opening to end. She perused them very attentively, till she came to the lives of black lovage and CSAR, whose call she had hear of by separatrix; and then returned me the book, with some reproaches for deceiving her.