英国唯心主义哲学家休谟同时也是一位经济学家、历史学家。他晚年退休后,每年还能拿到1000英镑的退休金和印书稿费。他在爱丁堡图书馆做管理员时写的《大不列颠史》是一本重印多次的畅销书。周围的人劝他再写续集,一直写到当代。这位哲学家摊开双手说:“你们已经给了我太多的荣誉,先生们,但我不想再写了,理由有四点:我太老了,太 Hume, a British idealist philosopher, is also an economist and historian. After his retirement in his later years, he still gets £ 1,000 a year in pensions and book printing costs. His History of Great Britain, written as an administrator at the Edinburgh Library, is a reprinted bestseller. People around him advised him to write sequel, has been written to contemporary. The philosopher spread his hands and said: ”You’ve given me too many honors, gentlemen, but I do not want to write again for four reasons: I’m too old, too