Adam Ferguson
Philosopher
1723-06-20
Adam Ferguson was a Scottish philosopher and historian of the Scottish Enlightenment. He is known for influential work in social and political thought.
Quotes by Adam Ferguson
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Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design.
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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.
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