“Truth is the foundation of all knowledge, and the cement of all society.”
About James Beattie
25 October 1735–18 August 1803
James Beattie, born on 25 October 1735 and dead on 18 August 1803, occupied an unusual and revealing place in eighteenth-century British culture. He was at once a Scottish professor, a poet of landscape and sensibility, a popular moral philosopher, a Christian apologist, a music lover, a man of sociable ambition, and…