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SKETCHES OF THE HISTORY OF MAN
NATURAL LAW AND
ENLIGHTENMENT CLASSICS
Knud Haakonssen
General Editor
This book is published by Liberty Fund, Inc., a foundation established to encourage study of the ideal of a society of free and responsible individuals.
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Introduction, annotations, note on the text, bibliography, index © 2007 by Liberty Fund, Inc.
Cover (detail): Portrait of Henry Home, Lord Kames, by David Martin. Reproduced with permission of the National Galleries of Scotland.
This eBook edition published in 2013.
eBook ISBNs:
Kindle 978-1-61487-051-7
E-PUB 978-1-61487-199-6
CONTENTS
SKETCHES OF THE HISTORY OF MAN
BOOK I: Progress of Men Independent of Society
SKETCH I: Progress Respecting Food and Population
SKETCH II: Progress of Property
SKETCH III: Origin and Progress of Commerce
SKETCH IV: Origin and Progress of Arts
SKETCH VI: Progress of the Female Sex
SKETCH VII: Progress and Effects of Luxury
BOOK II: Progress of Men in Society
SKETCH I: Appetite for Society—Origin of National Societies
SKETCH II: General View of Government
SKETCH III: Different Forms of Government Compared
SKETCH IV: Progress of States from Small to Great, and from Great to Small
SKETCH V: Great and Small States Compared
SKETCH VI: War and Peace Compared
SKETCH VII: Rise and Fall of Patriotism
SKETCH IX: Military Branch of Government
SKETCH X: Public Police with Respect to the Poor
SKETCH XI: A Great City Considered in Physical, Moral, and Political Views
SKETCH XII: Origin and Progress of American Nations
BOOK III: Progress of Sciences
SKETCH I: Principles and Progress of Reason
SKETCH II: Principles and Progress of Morality
SKETCH III: Principles and Progress of Theology
APPENDIX: Sketches Concerning Scotland
Henry Home was born at Kames in Berwickshire, not far from the English border, in 1696. The family was not wealthy, and Henry did not attend a university. Around 1712 he went to Edinburgh to train as a solicitor, but he soon directed his considerable energies instead toward being called to the Scottish bar and was
