All human life must perish, were his principles to prevail. All discourse, all action would immediately cease, and men remain in a total lethargy, till the necessities of nature, unsatisfied, put an end to their miserable existence.
Empiricism, skepticism
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section XII, Part 2
1748
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