This thirteen-volume set includes the following: Essays on the Principles of Morality and Natural Religion; Introduction to the Art of Thinking; Elements of Criticism (2 volumes); Sketches of the History of Man (4 volumes); Loose Hints upon Education, Chiefly Concerning the Culture of the Heart; Elucidations respecting the Common and Statute Law of Scotland; Essays upon Several Subjects Concerning British Antiquities; and Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Henry Home of Kame (2 volumes).
Henry Home, Lord Kames (b. 1696) was a Scottish advocate, judge, philosopher, writer and agricultural improver. A central figure of the Scottish Enlightenment, a founder member of the Philosophical Society of Edinburgh, and active in the Select Society, his protégés included David Hume, Adam Smith, and James Boswell.