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TOMORROW sees the 300th anniversary of the birth of Adam Smith, one of Scotland’s greatest thinkers most usually accredited with being the father… ....
Scottish Enlightenment, the conjunction of minds, ideas, and publications in Scotland during the whole of the second half of the 18th century and extending over several decades on either side of that period. Contemporaries referred to Edinburgh as a “hotbed of genius.” Voltaire in 1762 wrote in characteristically provocative fashion that “today it is from Scotland that we get rules of taste in all the arts, from epic poetry to gardening,” and Benjamin Franklin caught the mood of the place in his Autobiography (1794): “Persons of good Sense…seldom fall into [disputation], except Lawyers, University Men, and Men of all Sorts ....
MARK Brown is always a pleasure to read but I was especially moved by his piece on Joseph Knight, since this was a case I have personally used as a… ....