How the Scots Enlightened Us
Sometimes a random impulse buy really hits the spot
Browsing at a Barnes & Noble, I stumbled across How the Scots Invented the Modern World by Arthur Herman. That title makes a bold claim, which succeeded in capturing my attention. More importantly, Herman succeeds in making a compelling case for why we owe much to the Scottish Enlightenment of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Herman’s book …
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