FERGUSON, Adam.

An Essay on the History of Civil Society.

Edinburgh, A. Millar & T. Cadell and A. Kincaid & J. Bell, 1767. 4to, pp. [viii], 430; a good copy,bound with the final blank in contemporary polished calf, gilt double fillet on sides, spine gilt with raised bands, contrasting label lettered gilt, joints and spine-ends expertly strengthened, spine lightly rubbed, extremities slightly worn. First edition of a sociological classic and the principal work of Adam Ferguson, Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh and a leader of the Scottish Enlightenment. ‘Ferguson is today remembered for his Essay … rather than for his contributions to moral philosophy or Roman history: he was what we would now call an intellectual historian, tracing the gradual rise of the human mind from barbarism to political and social refinement … Debates between Reid, Dugald Stewart, Hume, Adam Smith, Lord Kames and Ferguson himself reveal Scottish philosophy in general to be important sociologically. Ferguson’s thought was part of a general eighteenth century movement, stimulated by the French, built upon English empirical traditions, and hostile to Cartesian speculation. Ferguson is sometimes considered the father of modern systematic sociology, and although he himself was soon forgotten amidst the anti-empirical reactions of Heglian disciples, the influence of the philosophical group to which he belonged was attested to by such nineteenth-century political thinkers as Comte, Mill and Marx. His discussions of politics, economics, history, aesthetics, literature and ethnology were the synthesis of the thought of his time.’ (Encyclopedia of Philosophy III, p. 187).Kress 6432; Goldsmiths’ 10264; Higgs 3973; not in Chuo.

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