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18th-Century Scottish Jacobite, Father of Western Sociology, Author, Historian, Anthropologist, and Social Scientist
: A prominent Scottish Jacobite and author of "probably the first systematic treatise written in English about economics" and the first book in English with 'political economy' in the title. He assumed the surname of Denham late in life; he inherited his cousin's baronetcy of Coltness in 1773. (From: Wikipedia.org.)
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Quote #6 on Education Struggle Quotes >> Learning and Politics
“...in political questions it is better for people to judge from experience and reason, than from authority...”
Source: "An Inquiry into the Principles of Political Economy," by Sir James Steuart, 1767. Book 1, Preface.
"An Inquiry into the Principles of Political Economy," by Sir James Steuart, 1767.
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