 His early essays, the “Hume Studies”, I (1877) and II (1882) — his only investigations with an explicit historical orientation — are, as the subtitles foreshadow, nonetheless critical and systematic treatises. Written under the influence of his Viennese mentor Franz Brentano, they show Meinong’s tendency towards British Empiricism (rather than Kantianism and German Idealism) and became relevant in the development of his object theory.