The Enlightened Scot Who Inspired America’s Founders

Real Clear History ^ | 09/25/2025 | Samuel Gregg

[Kid Shelleen]

The year 1776 was a momentous one, and not just because of what Americans commemorate every July 4. On March 9 of that year, a book was published that changed the world forever: Adam Smith’s Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. ---SNIP--- Colonial American educational institutions from New Hampshire to the Carolinas were dominated by Scottish ministers of religion. Such men were personified by the Reverend John Witherspoon, graduate of the University of Edinburgh, minister of the Church of Scotland, sixth president of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University), and signer of the Declaration of Independence

[Daveinyork]

A lot of people were killed in wars by and between people who bent the knee to “Him.”

[Albion Wilde]

Many more were killed by communists.

[Grampa Dave]

Another good Scot history book for that time period:

“How the Scots Invented the Modern World” By Arthur Herman!