Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design.
— Adam Ferguson, An Essay on the History of Civil Society [1767]
- Adam Ferguson, 1723-1815
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