A Comparative View of the State and Faculties of Man with those of the Animal World.

£250 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

This was the physician John Gregory’s most philosophically interesting contribution to the Scottish Enlightenment. The book grew out of papers presented to meetings of the Aberdeen Philosophical Society, or ‘Wise Club’, which Gregory had co-founded with his colleague Thomas Reid in 1758. Subsequent to its first publication in 1765 with 203 pages, Gregory altered the text of A Comparative View several times so that each successive printing by Dodsley differs from previous versions.

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