Adam Smith's Discourse by Brown Vivienne;

Author:Brown, Vivienne; [Brown, Vivienne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2022-11-15T00:00:00+00:00

Even where the historical authenticity of such legislators is supported by evidence, the empirical experience that laws and customs are attendant upon the requirements of society suggests that the innovatory potential of any specific set of intended legislation must be very slight. This view was also put forward in Adam Ferguson's Essay on the History of Civil Society, 1767:

We are therefore to receive, with caution, the traditionary histories of ancient legislators, and founders of states. Their names have long been celebrated; their supposed plans have been admired; and what were probably the consequences of an early situation, is, in every instance, considered as an effect of design.

(Ferguson 1966, p. 123; see also pp. 124, 134)

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