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Arthur Brooks, president of the American Enterprise Institute, gives an eloquent tribute to James Q. Wilson, by saying that he gave America social science with a soul. Brooks says of Wilson's book "The Moral Sense," that it truly ranks with Adam Smith's book 'Theory of Moral Sentiments,' as the most significant thinking on this subject. It synthesizes the work of hundreds of scholars in many fields to conclude that man is in his essence a moral creature. In all of creation and man's world there is this profound sense of man grounded in his moral being. It inspired most of his own work as it did for Adam Smith in his time.

James Q. Wilson- eminent U.S. writer on social and political problems of the 1980's and 1990's

03/02/2012

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