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Henry Home

Henry Home, Lord Kames (b. 1696) was a Scottish advocate, judge, philosopher, writer and agricultural improver. A central figure of the Scottish Enlightenment, a founder member of the Philosophical Society of Edinburgh, and active in the Select Society, his protégés included David Hume, Adam Smith, and James Boswell.


“Violent passions are formed in solitude. In the busy world no object has time to make a deep impression.”
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