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Introduction / Louis Schneider -- On feeling and association ; Some limitations of reason ; Of the idea of necessary connection / David Hume -- Instinct and the inductive principle / Thomas Reid -- Of wonder, or of the effects of novelty / Adam Smith -- Sensational anthropology ; Agreement and disagreement among men / Francis Hutcheson -- Human uniformity and predictability / David Hume -- Of the moral faculty / Dugald Stewart -- Self-approbation, self-disapprobation and the man within the breast / Adam Smith -- Of the principles of union among mankind ; Of the principles of society in human nature / Adam Ferguson -- The desire of society / Dugald Stewart -- Bees and men : instinct and the limitations of reason / Thomas Reid -- The invisible hand / Adam Smith -- Unintended establishments / Adam Ferguson -- Government, unintended developments, expediency, innovation / Dugald Stewart -- Of the influence of fortune upon the sentiments of mankind, with regard to the merit or demerit of actions / Adam Smith -- Of the speculation concerning final causes / Dugald Stewart -- Marriage of relatives / David Hume -- Relationship and marriage / Francis Hutcheson --

Current writing about culture is still characterized by conceptual slovenliness. Despite the clear thrust of E. B. Tylor's old definition, persons are still often said to be "members" of culture, which is about as justifiable as saying that a religious ritual, for example, is a member of a street corner gang. In current writing about culture there is also discernible a misplaced humanism that makes it unnecessarily difficult to allow a kind of "objective" analysis of culture that focuses away from human beings, temporarily but very usefully. Emic approaches in anthrop have their decided limitations. There are some older notions bearing on culture which have not recently received the attention they might. Autonomization, hierarchization, alienation & cultural alternation are still worth further analysis. Avoiding conceptual slovenliness & misplaced humanism & further developing the older notions indicated are indispensable procedures for enhancing the at present limited & vague utility of the idea of culture in the soc sci's. AA.