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Henry Home Kames, Lord

Henry Home Kames, Lord , 1696-1782, Scottish judge and philosopher. A man of broad interests and a wide-ranging intellect, his works included dissertations on Scottish law, agriculture, and problems of moral and aesthetic philosophy. Among his writings were Introduction to the Art of Thinking (1761) and Elements of Criticism (1762).

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Home, Henry, Lord Kames (1696–1782), Scottish judge and landowner, keenly interested in agricultural improvement and philosophy, a representative figure of the Scottish Enlightenment. His works include Elements of Criticism (1762) and Sketches of the History of Man (1774).

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Kames, Henry Home, Lord (1696–1782). Judge and man of letters. Son of a petty laird, Kames became a lord of Session in 1752. He was a prominent member of the Edinburgh literati and an important patron whose protégés included Adam Smith and John Millar. His Elements of Criticism (1762) was an early and influential textbook, widely acclaimed in the Anglo‐Saxon world.

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