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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 #15 on Political Struggle Quotes >> Individual and Morality
“I lay it down as a general maxim, that the characteristic of a good action consists in the conformity between the motive, and the duty of the agent. Were there but one man upon earth, his duty would contain no other precepts than those dictated by self-love.”
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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