e was two year's old and he was raised by his mother. His mother found him to be acutely intelligent and was his main educator throughout his childhood. Little more is known of his early childhood.
             Hume began his stint at the University of Edinburgh in 1723, at the age of 12. Initially, Hume decided to study law, but after three years he shifted his focus to an intense curriculum of eclectic study of his own devising. After the university his health decayed and after a battle with sickness he matriculated to France in 1734. There he began work on his most famous writing, his Treatise on Human Nature. The first two volumes of The Treatise were published anonymously in 1739.
             Hume's Treatise presented radical philosophical ideas and defined Hume as one of the first skeptics. Hume discounted huma
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