Henry Home, Lord Kames

But prudential reasons, as he avows, held him back.

He writes on 2nd December 1737 to Henry Home, afterwards Lord Cams, quote, "I enclose some reasonings concerning miracles, which I once thought of publishing with the rest, but which I'm afraid will give too much offense, even as the world is disposed at present", end quote.

On his arrival in London, it was Hume's first business to arrange for the publication of his now completed book.

It was a daring step for a young man of 26 to enter the field of authorship with a work at once so novel and so difficult.

Now that the time had come for the realization of his expectations, the tension of his feeling was naturally very great.

During the months that negotiations were proceeding with the booksellers, he was unwearily engaged in improving the style and diction of his work.

He was anxious to have the opinion of others on its merits, and was furnished by Henry Home with an introduction to Bishop Butler, whose analogy had been published the year before.

But Butler, to his disappointment, was in the country.

And if you read Scottish Enlightenment thinkers, so...

And, and I'm not just thinking about people like Adam Smith or David Hume, who are the, the people that we most, uh, think of, but we're also talking about other Scottish Enlightenment thinkers, uh, including a good number who were ministers of the Church of Scotland, uh, people like William Robertson, Hugh Blair, but also judges like Lord Kames, uh, and a, a range of people who saw the emergence of what we'll, we call commercial society as part of a civilizational change away from ag- primarily agriculturally based societies.

But it's a...

So, so there's a sort of historical development that's going on here that Hayek thought was very important to talk in terms of a civilizational change in not just the economic order, but the social order as well.