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Copyright 1997, Julie Van Camp (jvancamp@csulb.edu). See end note for
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Editor's note: " Of the Standard of Taste" appeared in 1757 in Hume's
Four Dissertations. The text file here is based on the 1875 Green and
Grose edition of Hume's Writings. Spelling and punctuation have not
been modernized.
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Of the Standard of Taste
The great variety of Taste, as well as of opinion, which
prevails in the world, is too obvious not to have fallen under
every one's observation. Men of the most confined knowledge
are able to remark a difference of taste in the narrow circle
of their acquaintance, even where the persons have been
educated under the same government, and have early imbibed the
same prejudices. But those, who can enlarge their view to
contemplate distance nations and remote ages, are still more
surprised at the great inconsistence and contrariety.
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