Acting in character -- Impersonation, the very idea -- Hume's excellent hypocrites -- Hume's treatment of Oliver Cromwell -- Hume and the conformity of Bishop Tunstal -- Hume's deathbed reading: a tale of three letters -- Hume's impressions and his other metaphors -- The life and mortality of the mind -- Hume's labyrinth -- A voice, as from the next room -- The energy in the cause -- Hume's post-impressionism -- Why Hume asked us not to read the Treatise -- Conclusion: Hume's curriculum vitae: his "own life," written by himself.
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