The Bactra Review Cognition in the
Wild
Here, for instance, is a representative and well-known quotation to the
purpose:
Thus bridges are built; harbours open'd; ramparts rais'd;
canals form'd; fleets equip'd; and armies disciplin'd every where, by the care
of government, which, tho' compos'd of men subject to all human infirmities,
becomes, by one of the finest and most subtle inventions imaginable, a
composition, which is, in some measure, exempted from all these
infirmities.
---David Hume, A Treatise
of Human Nature, Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental Method of
Reasoning into Moral Subjects, Book III, Part II, Sect. vii, end.