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A POINT IN HUME'S PHILOSOPHY.
[Vol. XIV.

view of objective reality which Hume finally accepted, lacked even the plausibility of the Berkeleyan and Kantian doctrines which preceded and followed it, and indeed remained to the end a most paradoxical theory of empirical idealism instead of the empirical realism which his reasoning had demonstrated. And if these considerations help us to understand why Hume turned a deaf ear to his own words, perhaps they may also explain why so many of his numerous opponents and disciples have been equally neglectful of this point in his philosophy.

W. P. Montague.
Columbia University..