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Kames, Henry Home, Lord
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Kames, Henry Home, Lord (hym), 1696–1782, Scottish judge and philosopher. A man of broad interests and a wide-ranging intellect, his works included dissertations on Scottish law, agriculture, and problems of moral and aesthetic philosophy. Among his writings were Introduction to the Art of Thinking (1761) and Elements of Criticism (1762).


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The gentle and insinuating manners of the female sex tend to soften the roughness of the other sex," Henry Home, Lord Kames, noted in his Six Sketches on the History of Man, published in Philadelphia in 1776.
 
 
 
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