The Structure of the Treatise of Human Nature by Thomas Hobbes

Hume says his treatise had been planned or modeled after other works. He was referring to a work by Thomas Hobbes, the major representative of atheistic thought. The topics in Hume's treatise are concerned with skeptical assault on dogmatic aims and ambitions of Christian theology. Understood that way, they represent the skeptical and naturalistic side - fused together into one coherent project.