Like the winds that we come we know not whence and blow whither soever they list, the forces of society are derived from an obscure and distant origin. They arise before the date of philosophy, from the instincts, not the speculations of men.

Ethics
In his ethical system Ferguson treats man as a social being illustrating his doctrines by political examples. His membership of The Poker Club is recorded in its minute book of 1776. ) – 22 February 1816) was a Scottish philosopher and historian of the Scottish Enlightenment.

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