id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt 9662 Hume, David An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding .txt text/plain 58008 1945 54 But there are other causes, which have been found more irregular and uncertain; nor has rhubarb always proved a purge, or opium a soporific to every one, who has taken these medicines. As to past _Experience_, it can be allowed to give _direct_ and _certain_ information of those precise objects only, and that precise period of time, which fell under its cognizance: but why this experience should be extended to future times, and to other objects, which for aught we know, may be only in appearance similar; this is the main question on which I would insist. cache/9662.txt txt/9662.txt