Bastard Gaelic Man
Colin Kidd, 14 November 1996
The Correspondence of Adam Ferguson
edited by Vincenzo Merolle.
Pickering & Chatto, 257 pp., £135, October 1995,1 85196 140 2 Show More
edited by Vincenzo Merolle.
Pickering & Chatto, 257 pp., £135, October 1995,
“... Nurtured over two centuries ago in Scotland’s ‘hotbed of genius’, the ideas of the Scottish Enlightenment endure. Their genetic code lurks in the inheritance of Liberals and Marxists alike, while the New Right delights in a pedigree which reaches back to David Hume and Adam Smith. In the United States scholars have established the influence of Francis Hutcheson, Hume and Smith on the American Revolution and the making of the Constitution ... ”