Hume : David (1711-76), English philosopher, historian, economist, & essayist who conceived of philosophy as the inductive, experimental science of human nature.
... their good gifts, it was Mr. Allan Hume, a man acute and vigorous, happy in action and in speech persuasive, an ideal leader, who prompted, it may be by his own humane and lofty feelings, it may be by a more earthly desire of present and historic fame, took us by the hand and guided us with astonishing skill on our arduous venture towards pre-eminence and power. Mr. Hume, I have said, had all the qualities... as much, are quite as essential. But on these, though individual Englishmen, men like Bolingbroke, Arnold, Burke, have had them pre-eminently, the race has always kept a very inadequate hold: and Mr. Hume is distinguished from his countrymen, not by the description of his merits, but by their degree. His original conception, I cannot help thinking, was narrow and impolitic. He must have known, none... supremacy as much social as political. Thus and thus only will he attain to his legitimate station, not an egoist class living for itself and in itself, but the crown of the nation and its head. But Mr. Hume saw things in a different light, and let me Page 60 confess out of hand, that once he had got a clear conception of his business, he proceeded in it with astonishing rapidity, sureness and ...
... Ironically, it was an Englishman, Allan Octavian Hume, who was responsible for the formation of Page 27 the Indian National Congress. In the words of an Indian historian, "The Congress was the natural and inevitable product of forces already at work in the country; it would have emerged soon enough, Hume or no Hume." Hume, who was the son of a radical politician, entered ...
... Ironically, it was an Englishman, Allan Octavian Hume, who was responsible for the formation of the Indian National Congress. In the words of an Page 46 Indian historian: 'The Congress was the natural and inevitable product of forces already at work in the country; it would have emerged soon enough, Hume or no Hume.' Allan Octavian Hume, who was the son of a radical politician, entered... conveners of the first session of the Indian National Congress, held at Bombay in 1885. Many questions have been raised about the motives for starting the Congress. The most widely accepted view is that Hume, under Lord Dufferin, organised the Congress with two main purposes: to provide a 'safety-valve' to the anticipated or actual discontentment of the Indian intelligentsia and to form a quasi-constitutional ...
... founded. The initiative for its foundation was taken, among others, by a retired English Civilian, Allan Octovian Hume whom, on his death, the Congress designated as its 'father and founder.' A.O. Hume (1829-1912) entered the Indian Civil Service in Bengal in 1849 and retired in 1882. Hume had a motive for organizing the Congress. His scheme was "to save the Indian youths from the influence of Spiritual... interests of the British Empire and save it from danger. The Congress held its first session in Bombay with Woomesh Chandra Bonnerjee, an eminent Barrister of the Calcutta High Court, as its president. A.O. Hume was one, of the conveners of the first session. He was also general secretary of the Indian National Congress for its first twenty-one years. On the other side, the Indian leaders themselves were feeling ...
... scene seems to show that philosophy dissipates its energies when it begins to isolate mind from world. Once the process begins, no one knows where to stop - Locke is followed by Berkeley, Berkeley by Hume, Hume by Kant and even Kant by Fichte." 10 Reality and the Integral Knowledge Thus we see that modern science is in a fix; it has lost its self-assurance and it has no reverence ...
... hounded, or felt himself hounded, from country to country, from home to home. The British philosophy David Hume was struck by Rousseau s writings and offered him refuge in England Rousseau accepted and he and Therese arrived in London in early 1766. Bin Rousseau quickly succeeded in making an enemy of Hume, and sixteen months later the couple was back in France to continue their continental peregrinations ...
... . Locke s empiricism reached its climax with David Hume (1711-1776), who maintained that sense-experience cannot provide a basis for belief in substance, either physical or spiritual, and hence nothing can be known with certainty. Hume s empiricism ended in scepticism. It is true that Kant, who was awakened from his dogmatic slumber by Hume, attempted to provide a new foundation for certainty ...
... looks like a glimpse of Eternity, his own disappearance by death: Comme le fruit se fond en jouissance, Comme en delice, il change son absence Dans une bouche ou sa forme se meurt, Je hume ici ma future fumee, Et le ciel change a l'ame consumee Le changement des rives en rumeur. C. Day Lewis has englished this example of what I may term clear-cut elusiveness: Even as ...
... the dimensions racism took in Germany resulted eventually “in such terrible political consequences”. 413 Some sayings from that time will illustrate Bronder’s point. The Scottish philosopher David Hume “inclined to presume”, in 1754, that generally speaking “all other races of human beings were naturally inferior to the white race”. The other races had never developed a civilized nation or prominent ...
... service of his country and its liberation.’ 21 The Indian National Congress was founded in 1895, less than eight years before, mainly on the initiative of a retired English civilian, Allan O. Hume (1892-1912). It was the first and for the time being the only political party in India, and its function consisted in performing the role of a buffer or cushion between the Indian people – i.e. the ...
... Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 1997. Heidegger, M., Being & Time, Harper & Row, New York, 1962. Hiriyanna, M., Outlines of Indian Philosophy, George Alien and Unwin, London. Hume, Robert Ernest, (tr.). The Thirteen Principal Upanishads, Oxford University Press, London, 1931. PAGE–146 Husseri, Edmund, Being and The Thesis of Reason, Collier Books, New York, 1962 ...
... got the eye to see and the mind of understanding about colour, line and design? How was it that I who was unable to understand and follow a metaphysical argument and whom a page of Kant or Hegel or Hume or even Berkeley left either dazed and uncomprehending and fatigued or totally uninterested because I could not fathom or follow, suddenly began writing pages of the stuff as soon as I started the Arya ...
... Movement gained momentum in Tamil Nadu. The first conference of the congress was held at Bombay under the presidentship of W. C. Bonnerji. C. Vijayaraghavachariyar of Salem, a close associate of A. O. Hume, was one of the members of the committee which drafted the constitution of Indian National Congress. G. Subramaniya Iyer of Chennai participated and moved a resolution in the congress. In the beginning ...
... Froebelian kindergartens are in agreement as to one fundamental practical difference. It relates to what one might call the Teaching Unit. In her attractive little book Teaching in the Infant School Miss Hume states the matter succinctly as follows: "In the Froebelian school the unit of teaching is the group of eight to ten children; in the Montessori school the unit of teaching is the individual child." ...
... illumine his imagination when he peered into the future of India. Mill, Carlyle or Herbert Spencer did not shed any light on his reasoning when he applied himself to the study of the problems in India. Hume, Froude, Kingsley or Freeman did not help him at all in taking a correct reading of events and their bearings. Neither Chatham nor Wilberforce nor even Mr. Gladstone stood by him with their e ...
... got the eye to see and the mind of understanding about colour, line and design? How was it that I who was unable to understand and follow a metaphysical argument and whom a page of Kant or Hegel or Hume or even Berkeley left either dazed and uncomprehending and fatigued or totally uninterested because I could not Page 192 fathom or follow, suddenly began writing pages of the stuff ...
... before his petty judgment-seat. Srijut Bipin Chandra Pal has been condemned to six months' simple imprisonment, the maximum penalty permitted by the law for the crime of possessing a conscience. Mr. Hume asked for a conviction on the ground that Bipin Babu had baulked the prosecution in the Bande Mataram case. Apart from the large assumption involved in the assertion that his evidence would have ...
... vision got the eye to see and the mind of understanding about colour, line and design? How was it that I who had been unable to understand and follow a metaphysical argument and whom a page of Kant or Hume or even Berkeley used to leave either dazed and uncomprehending and fatigued or totally uninterested, suddenly began to write pages of the staff as soon as I started the Arya and am now reputed to ...
... less consistent document than could be expected of the Word of God. England, the country of origin of the Enlightenment, was the exemplar of tolerance. Names like John Toland, John Locke and David Hume, willing to draw the last consequences of the enlightening but fallible human reason, are an ornament to its culture. In France there was Pierre Bayle (1647-1706), “the great apostle of tolerance”, ...
... e raises some awkward theological questions. Is God free to prevent evil? If he is omnipotent, yes. Why then does he fail to do so? This devastating argument was deployed by [the philosopher] David Hume: if the evil in the world is from the intention of the Deity, then he is not benevolent. If the evil is contrary to his intention, he is not omnipotent. He cannot be both omnipotent and benevolent (as ...
... sea-change taking place in Britain’s 19th century. The Enlightenment is generally associated with France and the philosophes , but the part of the British philosophers, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke and David Hume in particular, was at least as important. Their critical attitude (empiricism) towards the long established European, mainly Christian values opened the gates for the principles of materialism, atheism ...
... Testament, the unbelievable miracles in the New Testament, the tragi-comedy of Christianity’s history, and some quotations from Voltaire (who was, though not religious, an ardent believer in God), David Hume and Bertrand Russell. The physicist Paul Davies started his career as a best-selling science author with God and the New Physics (1983) and The Mind of God (1992). For the second book he was ...
... got the eye to see and the mind of understanding about colour, line and design? How was it that I who was unable to under stand and follow a metaphysical argument and whom a page of Kant or Hegel or Hume or even Berkeley left either dazed and uncomprehending and fatigued or totally uninterested because I could not fathom or follow, suddenly began writing pages of the stuff as soon as I started the ...
... Its place of insertion was not marked: One would sometimes almost think that this upheaval of thought anticipated at once Plato & Empedocles, Luther, Erasmus and Melanchthon, Kant, Hegel & Berkeley, Hume, Haeckel & Huxley—that we have at one fell blast Graeco-Roman philosophy, Protestant Reformation & modern rationalistic tendency anticipated by the single movement from Janaka to Buddha. ...
... Corrections of Statements Made in Biographies and Other Publications Autobiographical Notes The Indian National Congress: Moderates and Extremists [Allan Hume founded the Indian National Congress to act as an intermediary between the elite of the English and Indian peoples.] This description of the Congress as an intermediary etc. would hardly have been ...
... Schopenhauer on the six centres and that seemed to me more interesting. In sum, my interest in metaphysics was almost null, and in general philosophy sporadic. I did not read Berkeley and only [? ] into Hume; Locke left me very cold. Some general ideas only remained with me. As to Indian Philosophy, it was a little better, but not much. I made no study of it, but knew the general ideas of the Vedanta ...
... are not, why choose God's mind rather than matter's independent externality? Berkeley's final conclusion flatly contradicts his initial premiss. Logically the conclusion should be solipsism: as Hume Page 26 reasoned, we have no right even to speak of many human minds, we must reduce other human beings to the same status as objects and they must be deemed a ...
... true philosopher possesses his own 'privileged perception'. Thus while Descrates is endowed with a clear and distinct intuition of the 'soul', his disciple Malebranche misses it altogether. Leibniz, Hume, Maine de Biran differ in their experience of the self. In the red of an arm-chair Husserl grasps the very essence of red, but the nominalists can only shrug at this Husserlian venture. And what to ...
... Indian and Western Philosophy, A study in contrast, George Alien and Unwin Ltd., 1937, London. Hiriyanna, M., The Essentials of Indian Philosophy, Alien and Unwin Ltd., 1948, London. Hume, Robert Ernest, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads, Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press, 1949, Madras, Second Edition, Revised. Iśāvāsyopanisad (with Śānkara-bhāsya) (text with Hindi ...
... Well?' In his characteristic way, he parried my question with one of his own: 'How was it that I who was unable to understand and follow a metaphysical argument and whom a page of Kant or Hegel or Hume or even Berkeley left either dazed and uncomprehending and fatigued or totally uninterested because I could not fathom or follow, suddenly began writing pages of the stuff as soon as I started the ...
... his help. While in the midst of helping the national body forge together, Anandacharlu passed away on 28 November 1907. The Inspiration to Form the Congress Party When A. O. Hume, a philanthropic Scotchman and a great friend of Indian Nationalists, arrived in Madras in 1885 to assess for himself the level of national awakening in the Presidency, he found it bubbling with political ...
... by Rajnarayan Bose where the members had to take oath that they would destroy by the use of force the enemies of the country." 101 In 1885, the Indian National Congress was founded by A.C. Hume, a retired civilian, at the secret suggestion and under the veiled auspices of Lord Dufferin, the then Governor-General of India. It was Lord Dufferin's intention to use the Congress as a "safety-valve" ...
... tury metaphysicals - a complexity of what Eliot calls sensuous thought: the poet feels his curious thought instead of lumping it upon feeling, his idea and his image are one vital intricacy, as in Hume's The old star-eaten blanket of the sky Page 91 or in Auden's Soon through the dykes of our content The crumpling flood will force a rent or in MacNeice's The ...
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