 For his part, Hume had a more nuanced reaction to the emergence of the Newtonian program (cf. Schliesser 2007 and DePierris 2012). He certainly signaled his endorsement of the experimental philosophy—itself strongly associated with the Newtonians, along with figures like Boyle and Hooke, as we have seen—when he gave his Treatise the following subtitle: “being an attempt to introduce the experimental method of reasoning into moral subjects”. And one might argue that Hume made a kind of Lockean move when he chose to endorse the Newtonian program specifically in preference to the mechanical philosophy, which he regarded with suspicion. A famous comment from his History of England bolsters this interpretation: