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This volume presents David Hume’s 1752 work, *Political Discourses*, which outlines his foundational principles of political economy. The text includes an autobiographical sketch by the author and an account of his death written by Adam Smith.

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NOTES, OF THE ORIGINAL CONTRACT.

New discoveries are not to be expected in these matters. If no man, till very lately, ever imagined that government was founded on contract, it is certain it cannot, in general, have any such foundation.

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