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HES: QUERY -- a Scotchman inside every man
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[log in to unmask] (Manuel Santos Redondo)
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Fri Mar 31 17:18:44 2006
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Can anybody provide information about the expression, referred to Adam Smith's  
view of human nature, that he thought "there was a Scotchman inside every  
man"? 
 
O'Brien (Classical Economists, 1975 p. 30) uses the expression saying  
"hilariously characterized by Bagehot", but Bagehot himself writes  "It has  
been justly said that." (Economic Studies, 1880, p. 95).   Is Bagehot's  
expression  literary license or does the quotation came from any other  
source, academic or popular? 
 
Manuel SANTOS REDONDO 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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