The Importance of Religion in the Comparison of Hume and Burns

In every one of these illusions, you begin to see an infinite layer of meanings. Who knows to what extent these are intended? I tend to think they probably are. In Hume is this figure who is, you know, an empiricist, a rationalist, quite possibly an atheist. And the salesman, of course, is talking about Bibles and sacred books, holy writ. This happens in virtually every Borsheian detail that once you begin to examine it,. It's not just some little bit of coloring or shading but itself a potentially micro-Borsheian departure.