SKETCHES

OF THE

HISTORY OF MAN.

BY THE HONOURABLE

HENRY HOME OF KAMES,

ONE OF THE SENATORS OF THE COLLEGE OF JUSTICE, AND ONE OF THE
LORDS COMMISSIONERS OF JUSTICIARY IN SCOTLAND.

PRINTED FOR WILLIAM CREECH, EDINBURGH,

AND T. CADELL & W. DAVIES, LONDON,

NEILL & Co. Printers, 7

Edinburgh.

SK. 1. Appetite for Society.-Origin of National So-

cieties,

2. General View of Government,

3. Different Forms of Government compared,

4. Progrefs of States from fmall to great, and

from great to small,

5. Great and Small States compared,

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56

61

84

96

110

128

6. War and Peace compared,

7. Rife and Fall of Patriotism,

8. Finances,

155

Preface,

ib.

Sect. 1. General Confiderations on Taxes,

156

2. Power of impofing Taxes,

3. Different forts of Taxes, with their ad-

vantages and disadvantages,

162

168

4. Manner of levying Taxes,

177

Sect. 5.

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Sect. 5. Rules to be obferved in Taxing;

6. Taxes examined with respect to their

Effects,

7. Taxes for advancing Industry and

Commerce,

SK. 9. Military branch of Government,

180

191

200

245

10. Public Police with respect to the Poor,

296

11. A great City confidered in phyfical, moral,

and political views,

338

SKETCHES

OF THE

HISTORY OF MAN.

BOOK II.

PROGRESS OF MEN IN SOCIETY.

IN

PREFACE.

N the course of explaining this fubject, no opportunity is omitted of fuggefting an important doctrine, That patriotifm is the corner-ftone of civil fociety; that no nation ever became great and powerful without it; and, when extinguished, that the most powerful nation will totter and become a ruin. VOL. II. A

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