AN

ESSAY

ON THE

HISTORY OF CIVIL SOCIETY.

BY ADAM FERGUSON, L. L. D.
Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of Edinburgh.

THE SEVENTH EDITION.

Boston;

PUBLISHED BY HASTINGS, ETHERIDGE AND BLISS,
NO. 8, STATE STREET;

AND AT THEIR STORE IN CHARLESTOWN.

1809.

Charlestown;
Printed by Hastings, Etheridge & Bliss.

CONTENTS.

PART I.

OF THE GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF HUMAN NATURE.

SECTION I.

OF the question relating to the State of Nature,

SECTION II.

Of the principles of Self Preservation,

SECTION III.

Of the principles of Union among Mankind,

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