A Treatise of Human Nature Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental Method of Reasoning into MorOne of the most significant works of Western philosophy, Hume's Treatise was published in 1739 40, before he was thirty years old. A pinnacle of English empiricism, it is a comprehensive attempt to apply scientific methods of observation to a study of human nature, and a vigorous attack upon the principles of traditional metaphysical thought. With masterly eloquence, Hume denies the immortality of the soul and the reality of space; considers the