DIALOGUES concerning NATURAL RELIGION. Originally published in 1907. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. Introduction: In professing to call attention to this often forgotton work of the great scottish philosopher, one cannot help noticing howvery similar the reception accorded to it by the outside world has been to its treatment at the hands of the author himself. The plan of the diologues had been clearly thought out by Hume as early as 1750, and the active period of his contribution to philosophy proper having closed almost in the same year, this excursion of his into natural theology might most fitly have been presented to his readers once, especially if, as it seems to us now, it may be rightly regarded as the crown and consummation of his earlier speculations