...Understanding. "Would you know the sentiments, inclinations, course of life of the Greeks and the Romans? Study well the temper and actions of the French and...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...

...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...

...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...

...nations and ages, and that human nature remains still the same, in its principles and operations . . . Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places,...us of nothing new or strange in this particular.'"" Reconciling universalism with historicism seems difficult: if humanity is always and everywhere the...

...think we can do better than turn to David Hume. In his Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding he said: "Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places,...us of nothing new or strange in this particular". He meant, of course, that there was a basic similarity in the appetites, needs, emotions and instincts...

...are, the source of all the actions and enterprizes, which have ever been observed among mankind. . . . Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places,...informs us of nothing new or strange in this particular. (EHU, 8.7)28 In an ingenious passage Hume illustrates the parity of causality in the physical and social...

...been, from the beginning of the world, and still are, the source of all the actions among mankind . . . Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places,...us of nothing new or strange in this particular.' 29 There are other considerations that make the problem of free will less daunting in practice than...

...thinking was the fundamental belief that mankind was all one species and, more pointedly, that mankind was "so much the same in all times and places that history...us of nothing new or strange in this particular." David Hume quoted in Louis Schneider, ed. The Scottish Moralists on Human Nature and Society, pp. 44-45....