For the thinkers of the Scottish Enlightenment, the proper study of humanity was mankind itself.

对于苏格兰启示的思想家，人类的适当的研究是人类。

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His writings influenced Voltaire and Rousseau, many Scottish Enlightenment thinkers, as well as the American revolutionaries.

他的著作也大为影响了伏尔泰和卢梭，以及许多苏格兰启蒙运动的思想家和美国开国元勋。

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Meanwhile the Scottish Enlightenment thinkers' thoughts and disquiets on social transformation and civil society have an important reference and edification to present China.

同时，再现苏格兰启蒙思想家对社会转型与市民社会的思考与忧虑，对当下的中国有着重要的借鉴与启迪意义。

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Not surprisingly, he is particularly fond of the 18th-century Scottish enlightenment.

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Economists in the French Enlightenment (like Jacques Turgot) and the Scottish Enlightenment (like Adam Smith) recognized that essential human institutions such as language, culture, legal customs, mutual aid societies and markets develop spontaneously when governments get out of the way.

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Two floors go on to depict the intellectual flowering of the Scottish enlightenment (epitomised by David Hume and Adam Smith), and the economic explosion fuelled by British imperial expansion that took place after the union with England, with exhibits ranging from Paisley-pattern textiles to silverware and steam engines.

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