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“The total absence of citizens combined with the presence of protective officials gives the city an air of being under a permanent state of siege. It could almost be a depiction of David Hume’s remark, a century later, that military camps ‘are the true mothers of cities’.”

Question: Where should one start in reading David Hume?

parent blendo 6 years ago

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