Quotation of the Day…

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… is from page 198 of Samuel Gregg’s hot-off-the-press book, The Civilization of Commerce [original emphasis]:

Part of the stadial theory of development advanced by Scottish Enlighteners involved stressing that key institutions of commercial society had developed largely without conscious planning by governments. But the Scots were equally insistent that it is through our free choices to defer to the wisdom contained in particular institutions that we become free and can participate as citizens in commercial civilization.