id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 8646 Ferguson, Adam An Essay on the History of Civil Society, Eighth Edition .txt text/plain 107516 3585 54 the spirit which reigns in a commercial state, where men may be supposed to degree in which governments require men to act from principles of virtue, of nature, men, in their simplest state, attend to the objects of appetite OF NATIONAL OBJECTS IN GENERAL, AND OF ESTABLISHMENTS AND MANNERS RELATING command; yet a national force is best formed, where numbers of men are place the government, and the military force of nations, in different degrees, by a people whose national object is wealth: and they have their nation, being the only state in which virtue is studied as the object of referred to the state of nations in respect to their laws and government; nations; and communities, like single men, are supposed to have a period of _a nation_, was understood a number of men; and the state, while its Among rude nations, government is often defective; both because men are not ./cache/8646.txt ./txt/8646.txt