Hume's Proposed League of the Learned and Conversible Worlds

ingness to rediscover, without prior normative assumptions, the rich topical variety, interplay, and penetration of his essays. Eugene Rotwein's studies of Hume's economic thought, Ralph Cohen's analyses of his literary theories, John W Lenz's critical anthology of his esthetic papers, Keith E. Yandell's interpretation of his ultimate religious beliefs, Sheldon S. Wolin's and James Conniff's complementary readings of his political conservatism, Richard H. Popkin's and David Fate Norton's inquiries into his views of history (secular and prophetic), and most recently Norton's David Hume: CommonSense Moralist, Sceptical Metaphysician-all these, with other commendable researches, exhibit the tendency.' All depend heavily

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