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Scottish Enlightenment  

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  • Coincident with the Enlightenment in France, Scotland produced, for its size, a disproportionate number of scholars who made major contributions to modern thought. Adam Smith, Adam Ferguson and John Millar were key figures, as was David Hume. [Source: The SAGE Dictionary of Sociology; Enlightenment, Scottish]

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