Scottish Enlightenment [ Political & Moral philosophy ]
… of the moderate Scottish literati, who were largely Unionists and Hanoverians, felt obliged to respond to this enduring anxiety. Hume captured this apparent paradox in a famous letter to Gilbert Elliott of Minto of 1752: Is it not strange …
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