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- Title
A CHARACTER OF LORD MONBODDO.
- Authors
Brown, Lain Gordon
- Abstract
The article reports that James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, was ridiculed for his theories set out in "On the Origin and Progress of Language," his notion of the kinship of the orang-outang and "homosapiens," the former an intellectually less well developed relative of the latter, and his firmly-held belief that men were born with tails - is a fact well known to all students of the Scottish enlightenment. James Beattie had prophesied that most readers of Monboddo's massive works would be moved rather to laughter than to conviction by such theories.
- Subjects
ENLIGHTENMENT; KINSHIP; LAUGHTER; BURNETT, James; EDUCATION; CLANS
- Publication
Notes & Queries, 1986, Vol 33, Issue 4, p523
- ISSN
0029-3970
- Publication type
Article