The Philosophical Works of David Hume 3

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The Philosophical Works of David Hume 3
Hume, David, 1711-1776
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Our modem convents are, no doubt, bad institutions : but there is reason to suspect, that anciently every great family in Italy, and probably in other parts of the world, was a species of convent. And though we have reason to condemn all those Popish institutions as nurseries of superstition, burdensome to the public, and oppressive to the poor prisoners, male as well as female, yet may it be And Lucan. *' Turn longos jangere fines Agrorum, et quondam daro sulcata Camilli Yomeref et antiques Cu
...riornm passa ]igones Longa sub ignotis extendere rura colonis." Lib. L 1. 168.
^ " Vincto fosaore coluntur Jlesperiae segetes." Lib. irii.
* Lib. iii. cap. 19. f Id. lib. iv. cap. 8.
430 ESSAY XL questioned whether they be so destructive to the popu- lousness of a state, as is commonly imagined. Were the land which belongs to a convent bestowed on a nobleman, he would spend its revenue on dogs, horses, grooms, footmen, cooks, and housemaids, and his family would not furnish many more citizens than the convent The common reason why any parent thrusts his daughters into nunneries, is, that he may not be over- burdened with too numerous a family ; but the ancients had a method almost as innocent, and more effectual to that purpose, to wit, exposing their children in early in- fancy.


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