Adam Smith as a very young man in 1737 went off to University in Glasgow Scotland and soon fell under the spell of a warmhearted humanist professor Francis Hutcheson who believed in the innate goodness of human beings. This was at the dawning of what came to be known as the Scottish Enlightenment when everyone [...]
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