DeepDyve eBooks - Sketches of the history of man, in two volumes, Vol I.

Kames, Henry Home

Pages: 1 –43

Whether there be different races of men, or whether all men be of one race, without any difference but what proceeds from climate or other accident, is a profound question of natural history, which remains still undetermined after all that has been said upon it. As the question is of moment in...

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Progress of men with respect to food and population.

Kames, Henry Home

Pages: 44 –60

In temperate climates, the original food of men was fruits that grow without culture, and the flesh of land-animals. As such animals become shy when often hunted, there is a contrivance of nature, no less simple than effectual, which engages men to bear with chearfulness the fatigues of hunting,...

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Progress of men with respect to property.

Kames, Henry Home

Pages: 61 –67

Among the senses inherent in the nature of man, the sense of property is eminent. By this sense wild animals caught by labour or art, are perceived to belong to the hunter or fisher; they become his property. This sense is the foundation of meum et tuum, a distinction of which no human being is...

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Origin and progress of commerce.

Kames, Henry Home

Pages: 68 –86

The few wants of men in the first stage of society, are supplied by barter or permutation in its rudest form. In barter, the rational consideration is, what is wanted by the one, and what can be spared by the other. But savages are not always so clear-sighted: a savage who wants a knife will give...

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Origin and progress of arts.

Kames, Henry Home

Pages: 87 –167

Some useful arts must be nearly coeval with the human race; for food, cloathing, and habitation, even in their original simplicity, require some art. Many other arts are of such antiquity as to place the inventers beyond the reach of tradition. Several have gradually crept into existence, without...

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Progress of the female sex.

Kames, Henry Home

Pages: 168 –225

The history of the female sex, a capital branch of the history of man, comprehends great variety of matter, curious and interesting. But sketches are my province, not complete histories; and I propose in the present sketch to trace the gradual progress of women, from their low state in savage...

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Progress of manners.

Kames, Henry Home

Pages: 226 –330

There are peculiarities in the appearance, in the expressions, in the actions, of some persons, which, in opposition to the manners of the generality, are termed their manners. Such peculiarities in the bulk of a nation, by which it differs from other nations, or from itself at different periods,...

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Progress and effects of luxury.

Kames, Henry Home

Pages: 331 –353

In the savage state, man is almost all body, with a very small proportion of mind. In the maturity of civil society, he is complete, both in mind and body. In a state of degeneracy by luxury and voluptuousness, he has neither mind nor body. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights...

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Appetite for society--Origin of national societies.

Kames, Henry Home

Pages: 355 –389

That there is in man an appetite for society, never was called in question. But to what end the appetite serves, whether it be in any manner limited, and how far men are naturally fitted for being useful members of civil society, and for being happy in it, are are questions that open extensive...

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General view of government.

Kames, Henry Home

Pages: 390 –392

The progress of government, accurately delineated, would produce a great volume: in this work there is room but for a few hints. What are the means that fit men for society, is explained above; but writers are far from being unanimous about the means that fit them for government. (PsycInfo...

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