"If it happen, from a defect of the organ, that a man is not suceptible of any sensation we always find that he is as little susceptible of the correspondent ideas"
I think that here Hume is aying that if a man is not indluenced by any sensations then he does not experience similar ideas. He uses the example of a blind man who can't see colors or a deaf man who can't hear sounds. he says that if you restore these sense to these men then they will get ideas of what sound or color is annd that they will not have difficulty understanding what these things are. He also uses another example with a man who has a selfish heart does not have an idea of friendship or generosity. I agree with Hume on this.
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I agree too. ITs like the story of Eboniezer Screwg(or how ever you spell it). He was mean and greedy and careless then once he learned what caring was and how it felt, he immediatley changed his ways. ONce introduced to new ideas, one may like them and then take them in as their own.
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