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Copyright 1995, Christopher MacLachlan (cjmm@st-andrews.ac.uk). See
end note for details on copyright and editing conventions.[1]
Editor's note: "Of Essay Writing" appeared in 1742 in Volume two of
Hume's Essays, Moral and Political, but was removed from all
subsequent editions of that text published during Hume's life. The
text file here is based on the 1875 Green and Grose edition. Spelling
and punctuation have been modernized.
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Of Essay Writing
The elegant part of mankind, who are not immersed in the
animal life, but employ themselves in the operations of the
mind, may be divided into the learned and conversible. The
learned are such as have chosen for their portion the higher
and more difficult operations of the mind, which require
leisure and solitude, and cannot be brought to perfection,
without long preparation and severe labour. The conversible
world join to a sociable disposition, and a taste of pleasure,
an inclination to the easier and more gentle exercises of the
understanding, to obvious reflections on human affairs, and
the duties of common life, and to the observation of the
blemishes or perfections of the particular objects, that
surround them.
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