Adam Ferguson book An Essay on the History of Civil Society
PART III, SECTION I.
An Essay on the History of Civil Society (1767)
“Animals in their generation are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.”
No. 120 (18 July 1711).
The Spectator (1711–1714)
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