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.

CONTENTS.

PART I.

OF THE GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF HUMAN NATURE.

SECTION I.

PAGE.

OF

F the question relating to the State of Nature,