The story of the greatest of all philosophical friendships--and how it influenced modern thought David Hume is widely regarded as the most important philosopher ever to write in English, but during his lifetime he was attacked as "the Great Infidel" for his skeptical religious views and deemed unfit to teach the young. In contrast, Adam Smith was "Admirable. . . . Rasmussen's book is to be highly recommended for the legion of readers of Hume . . . and Smith."---Peter Loptson, European Legacy