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History and Theory in Ferguson's Essay On the History of Civil Society

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Political Theory and Influence Philosophy, History, and Historiography Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought

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as you have stated the Question, 'tis not about what was First, or Foremost; but what is Instant, and Now in being.... You go (if I may say so) upon Fact, and would prove that things actually are in such a state and condition, which if they really were, there would indeed by no dispute left. [ Shaftesbury, The Moralist]. As for the Performance itself, it is but an Essay. [ Edward Ward]

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