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	James Burnett, Lord Monboddo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		James Burnett was born in 1714 at Monboddo House in Kincardineshire, Scotland.
		Monboddo was the first to formulate what is now known as the single-origin hypothesis, the theory that all human origin was from a single region of the earth; he reached this conclusion by reasoning from linguistic evolution (Jones, 1789).
		Monboddo is considered by a number of scholars (Cloyd, 1972), (Gray, 1929), (Lovejoy, 1933) as a precursive thinker in the theory of evolution.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Burnett,_Lord_Monboddo (2675 words)

	Talk:James Burnett, Lord Monboddo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Monboddo does not make the cut in any of the books on the history of evolutionary thought written by historians.
		All of the references except one are from the 1920s and 1930s, when knowledge about the history of evolution was very poor and still wrapped up in the fact that they were still forming the modern synthesis.
		whether Charles Darwin was influenced by Monboddo, something with no support at all), and an over-quotation of relatively fringe sources for the history of evolutionary thought at the detriment of mainstream historians, with the overt and explicit intention of "proving" that Monboddo had a strong (and unrecognized) influence on evolutionary thought.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:James_Burnett,_Lord_Monboddo (612 words)

	Reminiscences of Scottish Life & Character - Chapter 5 - Scottish Judges
		Lord Monboddo (James Burnet, Esq., of Monboddo) is another of the well-known members of the Scottish Bench, who combined, with many eccentricities of opinion and habits, great learning and a most amiable disposition.
		Lord M. was really a learned man, read Greek and Latin authors—not as a mere exercise of classical scholarship—but because he identified himself with their philosophical opinions, and would have revived Greek customs and modes of life.
		Lord Braxfield (Robert M’Queen of Braxfield) was one of the judges of the old school, well known in his day, and might be said to possess all the qualities united, by which the class were remarkable.
	www.electricscotland.com /history/scottish_life5.htm (4381 words)

	James Burnett, Lord Monboddo info here at www.brandworkshops.info (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		In any case in his serious analysis he clearly argued that animal species adapted and changed to survive, and his observations on the adaptive progression of primates to man underscored his clear concepts of evolution.
		Publications of Lord Monboddo The Origin and Progress of Language (6 volumes, 1773-1792) Antient Metaphysics (6 volumes, 1779 - 1799) British Museum, James Burnett to Cadell and Davies, 15 May, 1796, A letter bound into Dugald Stewart, Account of the Life and Writings of William Robertson, D.D., F.R.S.E, 2nd ed., London (1802).
		Publications about Lord Monboddo Bailey, Eileen A. FSA, James C.A. Burnett, Charles J. Burnett and Christopher Croly, The Holly and the Horn, Leys Publishing, Banchory (2005) ISBN 0953864022 Brown, M.P., ed.
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	James Burnet
		Mr Burnet was, in 1764, made sheriff of his native county, and on the 12th February, 1767, through the interest of the Duke of Queensberry, lord justice general, he succeeded Lord Milton as a lord of session, under the title of Lord Monboddo.
		which Lord Monboddo takes for his motto, and which, he said, comprehended in miniature the whole history of man. In regard to facts that make for his system he is amazingly credulous, but blind and sceptical in regard to every thing of an opposite tendency.
		Lord Monboddo being in London in 1785, visited the King's bench, when some part of the fixtures of the place giving way, a great scatter took place among the lawyers, and the very judges themselves rushed towards the door.
	www.electricscotland.com /HISTORY/other/burnet_james.htm (2086 words)

	The Scottish Enlightenment
		Monboddo is considered by a number of scholars to have developed the concepts of evolution seventy years before Darwin, as summarized in the history of evolutionary thought.
		Monboddo studied in great detail a number of primitive languages including the Carib, Eskimo, Huron, Algonquin, Peruvian and Tahitian languages He was the first to see the preponderance of polysyllabic words, where most of his predecessors had summarily dismissed primitive language as a series of monosyllabic grunts.
		Lord Neaves, one of Monboddo's successors on the high court of Scotland believed that proper credit (Neaves, 1875) was not given to Monboddo in evolutionary theory development.
	www.martinfrost.ws /htmlfiles/scottish_enlighten.html (13261 words)

	Guardian \| Smallweed
		It comes from the writings of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, a Scottish judge and anthropologist, six volumes of whose Ancient Metaphysics were published at the end of the 18th century.
		I have to admit that Lord Monboddo's advice reaches me second hand, since I cannot afford to purchase his mighty contribution, the cheapest version of which on the Abe books website priced at around £170.
		When it's assumed, as it is by Monboddo, that classical heroes were much the same size as men of his own era, Ajax must have been about six-and-a-half feet tall, or at most seven feet.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4940361-103677,00.html (699 words)

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		Lord Hailes, who is one of the best philologists in Great Britain, who has written papers in _The World_[134], and a variety of other works in prose and in verse, both Latin and English, pleased him highly.
		Lord Gardenston is the proprietor of Laurence Kirk, and has encouraged the building of a manufacturing village, of which he is exceedingly fond, and has written a pamphlet upon it[233], as if he had founded Thebes; in which, however, there are many useful precepts strongly expressed.
		Lord Monboddo received us at his gate most courteously; pointed to the Douglas arms upon his house, and told us that his great-grandmother was of that family.
	www.gutenberg.org /dirs/1/0/4/5/10451/10451.txt (17682 words)

	LORD MONBODDO
		Lord Monboddo was one of the most respected and eminent Judges at Edinburgh's Court of Session during the 18th century, but he was also something of an oddball.
		In 1785, when he was 71, Lord Monboddo was visiting the King's Court in London when part of the ceiling of the courtroom started to collapse.
		Lord Monboddo, who was deaf and shortsighted, was the only person who did not move from his seat.
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	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Lord
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		The island was explored in 1788 by the British and was settled in 1834.
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	Gutenkarte » The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel ... » Chapter 7
		Lord Gardenston is the proprietor of Lawrence Kirk, and has encouraged the building of a manufacturing village, of which he is exceedingly fond, and has written a pamphlet upon it, as if he had founded Thebes, in which, however there are many useful precepts strongly expressed.
		Monboddo is a wretched place, wild and naked, with a poor old house; though, if I recollect right, there are two turrets which mark an old baron's residence.
		Lord Monboddo received us at his gate most courteously; pointed to the Douglas arms upon his house, and told us that his great-grandmother was of that family, 'In such houses,' said he, 'our ancestors lived, who were better men than we.' 'No, no, my lord,' said Dr Johnson.
	www.gutenkarte.org /section/6018/7 (2805 words)

	Scotsman.com Living - Eccentric sparks set city alight (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, a Court of Session judge, scholar of language evolution and philosopher, should have been a perfect example of intellect and good sense.
		According to Monboddo, babies the world over were born with tails which were lopped off by midwives at birth.
		Lord Monboddo appears normal alongside his 18th century contemporary, Dr Graham, possibly the world's first sex therapist.
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	[ information-center.be \| Charles_Neaves Resources ] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		From 1858 to his death, he was Lord of Justiciary, Scotland's supreme criminal court.
		As a judge of the Court of Session, Neaves was familiar with one of his predecessors, James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, to whom he credited the origination of the concepts of the theory of evolution.
		Lord Neaves may have also been an early thinker on the issue of women's rights with the following quote, that would have bordered on heresy in his era:
	information-center.be /Charles_Neaves.html (731 words)

	This Month in Celtic History - May 2003
		He became Lord of Session in 1767, and acquired thereby the curious title of Lord Monboddo, so named after the town of his birth.
		Monboddo daringly suggested that the orangutang might be related to humans.
		Monboddo also had the reputation of being a bit of an eccentric.
	www.celticleague.org /history_5-03b.html (575 words)

	Gutenkarte » The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel ... » Chapter 12 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		I called on Mr Robertson, who has the charge of Lord Findlater's affairs, and was formerly Lord Monboddo's clerk, was three times in France with him, and translated Condamine's Account of the Savage Girl, to which his lordship wrote a preface, containing several remarks of his own.
		Robertson said, he did not believe so much as his lordship did; that it was plain to him, the girl confounded what she imagined with what she remembered: that, besides, she perceived Condamine and Lord Monboddo forming theories, and she adapted her story to them.
		If they have tails, they hide them; but Monboddo is as jealous of his tail as a squirrel.' I shall here put down some more remarks of Dr Johnson's on Lord Monboddo, which were not made exactly at this time, but come in well from connection.
	www.gutenkarte.org /section/6018/12 (1433 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Scotland - Edinburgh - Demolition reveals home of eccentric evolutionary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Archives suggest the area was the location of grand residences for 18th-century luminaries such as the lawyer and philosopher Lord Kames, man of letters Lord Hailes and colonel Sir Philip Ainslie.
		Once on a rainy day he is remembered to have come out of court and placed his wig in his sedan chair to protect it from the rain and walked home.
		"Lord Kames proposed building the North Bridge in 1754 but was opposed by builders who were extending the city towards the south.
	news.scotsman.com /edinburgh.cfm?id=1264542004 (699 words)

	Robert Burns Country: The Burns Encyclopedia: Burnett, James, Lord Monboddo (1714-99)
		Thirty years later, he became a Lord of Session, taking this title from his father's estate, Monboddo, in Kincardineshire.
		His second daughter, Elizabeth Burnett, was a celebrated Edinburgh beauty, whose death from consumption at the age of 25 drew an elegy from Burns.
		These were convened at an early hour, and the cream of the intelligentsia were invited to partake of attic repasts.
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	Prof. N.A. Joukovsky: "Peacock's Sir Oran Haut-ton"
		Monboddo, for all his eccentricities, had not attempted to prove his theories by educating an orang-utan, and no one else is known to have undertaken such an experiment in Britain.
		Lord B.'s establishment consists, besides servants, of ten horses, eight enormous dogs, three monkeys, five cats, an eagle, a crow, and a falcon; and all these, except the horses, walk about the house, which every now and then resounds with their unarbitrated quarrels, as if they were the masters of it.
		Lord Byron told Captain Medwin that a friend of Shelley's had written a novel, of which he had forgotten the name, founded on his bear.
	www.thomaslovepeacock.net /essays/byronsbear.html (5002 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Burnett,
		Burnett, James BURNETT, JAMES [Burnett, James] see Monboddo, James Burnett, Lord.
		Monboddo, James Burnett, Lord MONBODDO, JAMES BURNETT, LORD [Monboddo, James Burnett, Lord] 1714-99, English writer, b.
		A pioneer in anthropology, he wrote Of the Origin and Progress of Language (6 vol., 1774-92), in which he anticipated Darwin and much of modern evolutionary theory.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Burnett, (362 words)

	FeralChildren.com \| An Account of a Savage Girl [M. A. Memmie LeBlanc] caught wild in the woods of Champagne [by La ...
		An Account of a Savage Girl [M. Memmie LeBlanc] caught wild in the woods of Champagne [by La Condamine translated by Robertson] with a preface [by Lord Monboddo] containing several particulars omitted in the original account.
		This translation was done by a clerk [Mr Robertson] of L. Monboddo (under his direction) when he went to Paris on The Douglas Cause.
		Lord Monboddo says "he often met and conversed with Mademoiselle Le Blanc and vouches for the truth of the particulars contained in this preface" which is chiefly written by himself.
	www.feralchildren.com /en/pager.php?df=robertson (680 words)

	MONBODDO, JAMES BURNET... - Online Information article about MONBODDO, JAMES BURNET... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		In both respects Monboddo was far in advance of his neighbours.
		He died on the 26th of May 1799.
		account of the lexicographer's visit to Burnett at Monboddo, and is full of references to the natural contemporary view of a man who thought that the human See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /MOL_MOS/MONBODDO_JAMES_BURNETT_LORD_171.html (601 words)

	Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character by Edward Bannerman Ramsay eBook by BookRags
		Cream, was a man well known throughout all the county, and was distinguished, in his later years, as one of the few men who continued to wear a pigtail.
		On the host leaving the room, where he had come to take orders for supper, Lord Dunmore turned to his valet and said, “Johnstone, do I look as like a fool in my pigtail as Billy Cream does?”—“Much about it, my lord,” was the valet’s imperturbable answer.
		of Monboddo) is another of the well-known members of the Scottish Bench, who combined, with many eccentricities of opinion and habits, great learning and a most amiable disposition.
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	Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, by James Boswell (chapter2) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Lord Sanquhar hired ruffians, and had the fencing-master assassinated; for which his lordship was capitally tried, condemned, and hanged.
		I had a most elegant room; but there was a fire in it which blazed; and the sea, to which my windows looked, roared; and the pillows were made of the feathers of some sea-fowl, which had to me a disgreeable smell: so that, by all these causes, I was kept awake a good while.
		Lord Strichen was a man not only honest, but highly generous: for after his succession to the family estate, he paid a large sum of debts contracted by his predecessor, which he was not under any obligation to pay.
	etext.library.adelaide.edu.au /b/boswell/james/b74t/chapter2.html (9168 words)

	James Burnett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		James Burnett, Lord of Monboddo, was born in October 1714, at Monboddo of
		He studied civil law and was admitted to the Scottish bar in 1738.
		His life was fairly long for the times, and his family tree is astounding to look at.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/information/biography/abcde/burnett_james.html (204 words)

	Dr Johnson Meets Monboddo by James Boswell
		Monboddo— 'The history of manners is the most valuable.
		When King James comes back, you shall be in the "Muses' Welcome!"' — My Lord and Dr Johnson disputed a little, whether the Savage or the London Shopkeeper had the best existence; his lordship, as usual, preferring the Savage.
		I had a particular satisfaction in being under the roof of Monboddo, my lord being my father's old friend, and having been always very good to me. We were cordial together.
	www.ourcivilisation.com /smartboard/shop/boswellj/monboddo.htm (1136 words)

	Tour Scotland, Dunkeld, Perthshire.
		Thirty years later he became a judge with the title of Lord Monboddo.
		His doctrines do not sound so absurd now as they did in his own day.
		He was visited by Dr. Johnson at Monboddo.
	www.visitdunkeld.com /james-monboddo.htm (126 words)

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