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18th-Century Scottish Jacobite, Father of Western Sociology, Author, Historian, Anthropologist, and Social Scientist
: A prominent Scottish Jacobite and author of "probably the first systematic treatise written in English about economics" and the first book in English with 'political economy' in the title. He assumed the surname of Denham late in life; he inherited his cousin's baronetcy of Coltness in 1773. (From: Wikipedia.org.)
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Quote #4 on Political Struggle Quotes >> Masters and Corruption
“Statesmen have sometimes recourse to artifice instead of reason, because their intentions often are not upright. This destroys all confidence between them and the people...”
Source: "An Inquiry into the Principles of Political Economy," by Sir James Steuart, 1767. Book 1, Chapter 2.
"An Inquiry into the Principles of Political Economy," by Sir James Steuart, 1767.
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