of angle brackets. For example, page 112 begins after<112>. In addition, the errata from the third edition have been incorporated and flagged with footnotes.
Thanks to Knud Haakonssen for answering many questions and helping to solve many puzzles in the notes; Wolfgang Haase for help with Millar’s references to ancient texts; Charles Wolfe for a great deal of research assistance and French translation help; Steve Scully, Joel Berson, and Theo Korzukhin for assistance with Latin translations; Charles Griswold and the philosophy department at Boston University; the staff at the Houghton Library at Harvard University; and the staff at Liberty Fund.
THE ORIGIN OF
THE DISTINCTION OF RANKS
AN INQUIRY INTO THE CIRCUMSTANCES
BY JOHN MILLAR, ESQ.
PROFESSOR OF LAW IN THE UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW.
THE FOURTH EDITION, CORRECTED.
TO WHICH IS PREFIXED,
AN ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF THE AUTHOR,
BY JOHN CRAIG, ESQ.
EDINBURGH:
PRINTED FOR WILLIAM BLACKWOOD, SOUTH-BRIDGE STREET;
AND
LONGMAN, HURST, REES, & ORME, PATERNOSTER-ROW,
LONDON.
1806.
G. CAW, PRINTER, EDINBURGH.
TO
JOHN YOUNG, ESQUIRE,1 PROFESSOR OF GREEK IN THE UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW.
MY DEAR SIR,
In presenting you with a Memoir on the Life of our late excellent Friend, Mr. Millar, I submit it to the person who, from long and familiar intercourse with him, will most readily perceive any misconceptions of his real character, or inaccuracies in the representation of his opinions.
I am fully aware of the difficulty of delineating a character such as Mr. Millar’s, and I am not insensible of the danger of failing in a species of composition in which some late writings have accustomed the Public to the union, in an uncommon degree, of Philosophy and Taste; but I could<iv> not be deterred by any selfish regard to my own reputation, from making that attempt, for which, in the opinion of our mutual friends, my intimacy with Mr. Millar, begun by our near connection, and continued by his kind indulgence, had afforded me peculiar advantages.
I am, with the greatest regard,
MY DEAR SIR,
Your most obedient Servant,
JOHN CRAIG.
GLASGOW, February, 1806. <v>
CONTENTS2
ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF THE AUTHOR
OF THE RANK AND CONDITION OF WOMEN IN DIFFERENT AGES.
SECT. I. The effects of poverty and barbarism, with respect to the condition of women
SECT. III. The refinement of the passions of sex, in the pastoral ages
OF THE JURISDICTION AND AUTHORITY OF A FATHER OVER HIS CHILDREN.
SECT. I. The power of a father in early ages
SECT. II. The influence of the improvement of arts upon the jurisdiction of the father
