Author: Nigel Bruce
Nigel Bruce is co-founder of the Humanist Society of Scotland and currently convener of the David Hume Commemoration Committee of the Saltire Society.
The Immortal David Hume
The eighteenth century in Scotland was a period that witnessed the blooming of new ideas in medicine, chemistry, geology, economics, engineering, and other fields of knowledge. It came to be known as the “Scottish Enlightenment.” Scotland then has been referred to as “a hotbed of genius.” Being a small country with a small population but …