Scottish Enlightenment [ Political & Moral philosophy ]
… and situations he termed ‘ unsociable, ’ a quality he encountered in London and elsewhere and which prompted a degree of melancholy that made life almost unbearable. 2 But the passage also opens a window onto the wider subject of sociability …
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