"Custom, then, is the great guide of human life. It is that principle alone, which renders our experience useful to us, and makes us expect, for the future, a similar train of events with those which have appeared in the past. Without the influence of custom, we should be entirely ignorant of every matter of fact, beyond what is immediately present to the memory and senses."............
Hume discusses that our conclusions from experience carry us past our memory and senses, and guarantee us of matters of fact which happened in the most far-away places and most isolated ages; however some fact must always be present to the senses or memory, from which we may first carry on in drawing these conclusions.
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