 | Adam Ferguson (July 1, 1723 - February 22, 1816) on Free Speech and The State(published by RevoltSource) |
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Scottish Philosopher, Historian of the Scottish Enlightenment, Anti-Traditional, Anti-State, Anti-Capitalist, Anti-Establishment
: A Scottish philosopher and historian of the Scottish Enlightenment. Ferguson was sympathetic to traditional societies, such as the Highlands, for producing courage and loyalty. He criticized commercial society as making men weak, dishonourable and unconcerned for their community. Ferguson has been called "the father of modern sociology" for his contributions to the early development of the discipline. (From: Wikipedia.org.)
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Quote #2 on Political Struggle Quotes >> Free Speech and The State
“Every dispute of a free people, in the opinion of such politicians, amounts to disorder, and a breach of the national peace. What heart-burnings? What delay to affairs? What want of secrecy and dispatch? What defect of police? Men of superior genius sometimes seem to imagine, that the vulgar have no title to act, or to think.”
Source: "An Essay on the History of Civil Society," by Adam Ferguson, 1767. Part 5, Section III.
"An Essay on the History of Civil Society," by Adam Ferguson, 1767.
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