1. See Richard B. Sher, Church and University in the Scottish Enlightenment: The Moderate Literati of Edinburgh (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1985), chap. 2,
2. and Ian D. Clark, “From Protest to Reaction: The Moderate Regime in the Church of Scotland, 1752–1805,” in Scotland in the Age of Improvement: Essays in Scottish History in the Eighteenth Century, 2nd ed., ed. Nicholas T. Phillipson and Rosalind Mitchison (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1996), 200–24.
3. On Hugh Blair, see R. Morell Schmitz, Hugh Blair (New York: King’s Crown Press, 1948); see also Richard Sher’s entry on Hugh Blair in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, s.v. “Blair, Hugh (1718–1800).”
4. Jane L. McIntyre, “Character: A Humean Account,” History of Philosophy Quarterly 7, no. 2 (April 1990): 201.
5. Nicholas T. Phillipson, Adam Smith: An Enlightened Life (London: Allen Lane, 2010), 150.