A review by zmb
Dialogues and Natural History of Religion by David Hume

5.0

I would give this more stars if I could. Hume is calm, equable, cheerful, humanitarian, surprisingly fair, and above all skeptical. He's also necessarily slippery; even though the Dialogues were published after his death, he is careful to not be Philo and to have Philo himself disclaim his more skeptical attacks shortly after making them. Such was eighteenth century censorship. Nevertheless, the Dialogues are outstanding, and, though the History is fairly weak as history it's pretty great as philosophy.

Of particular note are part XI and XII of the Dialogues, parts XI - XIV of the History, and Note I of the History.