In the Old Calton cemetery in Edinburgh, David Hume’s mausoleum, a stout, cylindrical tower, dominates the ... opposed Hume’s attainment of a university professorship. In 1744, Hutcheson ...
He might have pleaded mitigation, pointing to his condemnation of slavery in ancient Rome, but that didn’t stop Edinburgh University scrubbing his name from the Hume Tower in 2020. At the very ...