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Ah, Hume - I've stood in his grave in Edinburgh many a time; indeed, getting through there as often as I can my pleasures in this direction find themselves consummated often. Anyhow, Schopenhauer - rarely a man to get things 'a point' - caught Hume up short by perfectly describing his error as that of all Empiricists, as beginning with the object and finding the self all horribly dissolved, a set of things gathered up only by a feat of illusion; and, conversely, the error of Rationalists as beginning with the self and finding the object a difficult, tenuous thing hidden beneath the curtains of language and category, a great train of filtration before it reached the high self of ego. Unbalancing act as far as I have seen. A good piece nonetheless %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%