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The Social Evolution of Jurisprudence

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Dugald Stewart reported on conversations he had with Adam Smith about his interest in the differences between human life in eighteenth Scotland compared to the lives of the native tribes in Africa and the Americas.

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Kennedy, G. (2017). The Social Evolution of Jurisprudence. In: An Authentic Account of Adam Smith. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63802-7_6

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