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Drawn from what David Hume said
government What states are for and what they are worse at than markets and networks: legitimacy, moral hazard, and who may be entrusted with power.
mathematics Doing mathematics: proof, conjecture, and what mathematicians want that other fields do not.
So great is the force of laws, and of particular forms of government, and so little dependence have they on the humours and tempers of men, that consequences almost as general and certain may sometimes be deduced from them, as any which the mathematical sciences afford us.
Where this was said
↗Essays, Moral and Political (selection; 1741-1776)gutenberg.org
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