Quote of the day
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
Francis Hutcheson
Born: August 8, 1694
Died: August 8, 1746 (aged 52)
Bio: The Rev. Francis Hutcheson was an Ulster-Scots philosopher born in Ulster to a family of Scottish Presbyterians who became known as founding fathers of the Scottish Enlightenment.
Known for:
- A system of moral philosophy, in three books
- Illustrations on the moral sense (1728)
- Philosophical Writings