  Hume’s discussion of Du Bos in ‘Of Tragedy’ has already been noted, but Jones (1982) argues that Du Bos’s influence is also apparent in ‘Of the Standard of Taste’. Hume’s views on art were influenced by several of his contemporaries, including Francis Hutcheson, and it can be difficult to disentangle their contributions to his thought. (See the article on Scottish Philosophy in the 18th Century, section 4 for a discussion of Hutcheson’s influence on Hume.) The difficulty is compounded by the fact that the views of Hutcheson and Du Bos are similar in certain respects. Nevertheless, Jones (1982) finds significance in the fact Hume, like Du Bos, believed that we have an internal sense of beauty. Both believe that this sense of beauty, not reason, is the means by which the beauty of work is determined. Moreover, there is an uncanny similarity between the ways in which they express these views. Du Bos, in the Critical Reflections, and Hume, in ‘Of the Standard of Taste,’ say that they are opposed to “geometrical” criticism. Both believe that rules of criticism can be given, but that they can be violated by great works of art. Both give Ariosto as an example of a poet who violates the rules of criticism.