Abstract

This article focuses on the work "A Resverie," by Oliver Goldsmith. The name Jehu hints that Goldsmith's objection to Hume has religious and political overtones. During the seventeenth century Puritan reformers used Jehu typologically to justify executing Charles I. Goldsmith distrusted theological dispute and philosophy. What Goldsmith woulnot do was to stress the connection between all religions and fanaticism. And perhaps, Jehu may have also served in an opposite sense, to give Whigs -- imagine a Jehu chastizing a Hume?--a comfortable chuckle at Puritan do-gooder's blindness.