THEISM; EVOLUTION OF THEOLOGY 191 



"What signifies his barren shine 

 Of moral powers and reason ? 

 His English style and gesture fine 



Are a' clean out of season. 

 Like Socrates or Antonine, 



Or some auld pagan heathen, 

 The moral man he does define, 

 But ne'er a word o' faith in 



That's right that day." 1 



1 Burns published the Holy Fair only ten years after Hume's 

 death. 



