Hartley was expounding the association principle which became the main doctrine of the empirical school, and Hume was teaching ethics upon the same basis, and turning from speculation to political history.
"English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century"
Leslie Stephen
He is determined to be thoroughly empirical-to take men as he found them.
"English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century"
Leslie Stephen
On no other subject has our knowledge remained for centuries so unsatisfactory, fragmentary and empirical.
"On Snake-Poison: its Action and its Antidote"
A. Mueller