James Dunbar (writer)

James Dunbar LL.D. (died 28 May 1798) was a British philosophical writer.^[1]

Life

He was educated at King's College, Aberdeen, of which he was elected a regent in 1766, and in that capacity he taught moral philosophy there for thirty years.^[1]

Dunbar was in favour of the amalgamation of King's College with Marischal College. He died in his rooms at King's College on 28 May 1798.^[1]

Publications

He published:^[1]

1. De Primordiis Civitatum Oratio in qua agitur de Bello Civili inter Magnam Britanniam et Colonias nunc flagrante, London, 1779, quarto.
2. Essays on the History of Mankind in rude and uncultivated ages, London, 1780, octavo; 2nd edition 1781.

The latter work deals with such topics as the "Primeval Form of society", "Language as an Universal Accomplishment", "The Criterion of a Polished Tongue", "The Hereditary Genius of Nations".^[1]

Notes

References

Attribution

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rigg, James McMullen (1888). "Dunbar, James". In Leslie Stephen. Dictionary of National Biography. 16. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 153. ; Endnotes:
  • Fasti Aberdon. (Spalding Club), volume lxxxviii.
  • Thom's Aberdeen, volume ii. app. i. 13, 14, 52
  • Nichols's Lit. Illustr. iv. 822
  • Gentlemen's Magazine (1798), pages 539, 622.