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REMARKS ov/ome SCEPTICAL POSITIONS hz Mr. HUME's 

 ENQUIRY concerning the HUMAN UNDERSTANDING and 

 his TREATISE cf HUMz'VN NATURE. By RICHARD 

 KIRWAN, Efq; L. L. D. F. R. S. and P. R. I. A. 



I^HOUGH numberlefs treatifes of the ever jarring feds of Read, Oa. 

 fcholaftics had in all countries and for feveral ages obfcured 

 and difgraccd the fublimer regions of fpeculative philofophy, 

 and have been the fruitful parents of many abfurdities in the 

 fciences conne(fted vyith it, yet, to the honour of the philofophers 

 of that denomination, it muft be owned, they confined their 

 reafoning rage within the limits of pure fpeculation, and re- 

 frained from meddling with thofe principles that have an imme- 

 diate influence on the condudl of human life. We have lived 

 however to fee an attempt made in our own days by a modern 

 philofophical fedl to fubvert thefe alfo, or at leafl to involve 

 them in all the darknefs of the mofl dreary fcepticifm. For 

 after the mifts that overfpread the regions of mere fpeculation 



had 



