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"There is no part of philosophy of more importance than a just knowledge of human nature, and its various powers and dispositions."
Francis Hutcheson, (born in Co Down, died in Dublin, 1694-1746) a founding father of the Scottish & Irish Enlightenment, and teacher of the economist Adam Smith at the University of Glasgow, in the preface of “An Inquiry Into The Original of Our Ideas of Beauty And Virtue”, In Two Treatises, Dublin, 1726.

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