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The Speculative Society of Edinburgh was a literary and intellectual club founded in 1764. This book provides a detailed history of the society, including its founding, membership, and key events. It also offers insights into the intellectual life of Edinburgh during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Excerpt from The History of the Speculative Society, 1764-1904 IT is sixty years since a History of the Speculative Society was published, and it has for a long time been felt that it would be of interest, not only to members, but to many who are not members, if that History were brought down to date. In 1864 the Society celebrated its centenary, and six years later a committee was appointed to consider the matter. In 1871 that committee reported that no new publication should then be undertaken, but that arrange ments might be made to collect information to be used when the proper time should come. The practical out come of this suggestion was the institution of the elaborate system of roll...
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