This book contain collection of 7 books1. A Treatise of Human Nature [1739]2. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding3. Enquiry into the Principles of Morals [1751]4. Of Suicide [1755, unpublished until 1777]5. The Natural History of Religion6. My Own Life [1776]7. Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion [1779]About the AuthorDavid Hume, 1711-1776Philosopher and historian, second son of Joseph Hume, of Ninewells, Berwickshire, was born and educated in Edinburgh, and was intended for the law. For this, however, he had no aptitude, and commercial pursuits into which he was initiated in a counting-house in Bristol proving equally uncongenial, he was permitted to follow out his literary bent, and in 1734 went to France, where he passed three years at Rheims and La Flèche in study, living on a small allowance made him by his father. In 1739 he published anonymously his Treatise on Human Nature, which attracted little attention. Having returned to Scotland, he wrote at Ninewells his Essays, Moral and Philosophical (1741