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Scottish philosopher David Hume, oil on canvas by Allan Ramsay, 1766; in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh.
A Treatise of Human Nature was published in stages: Books I and II were released in 1739, and Book III followed in 1740.12