Essays on the origin of society, etc / Interspersed with illustrations from the Greek and Galic languages.
- James Grant of Corrimony
- Date:
- 1785
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Essays on the origin of society, etc / Interspersed with illustrations from the Greek and Galic languages. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Ab Jove principium Mufe, Jovis omnia plena *. | THERE is no property more remarkable in the conftitution of Man, than the verfatility of his genius, and the facility with which he ace commodates himfelf to the ‘circumftances of his condition. He is born in a fociety more or lefs numerous, upon which there is already {tamped a certain form. He is not the author or con- triver of his own lot. External circumftances exift independently of him: to thefe he bends his will, or puts in attion his arts of con- trivance to fafhion them to his convenience. In this occupation his inventive powers and various talents are con{picuoufly difplayed. Hence a diverfity in fituations and conditions mutt neceffarily produce a diverfity in manners and cuftoms; and adventitious circumftances of a pbyfical nature may juftly lay claim to a confi- * Virg. Πο]. iii. 60, ο derable](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33518865_0017.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
