This must have been written in the 90's, right?
[quick Googling]
1755, huh? Dang. Ahead of his time.
Anyways, I've been helping my son with a lot of humanities courses in university. I was broadly horrified by the sheer Jordan Peterson-ness of the Classics (Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, et al). I was a lot more heartened by the stuff he had to read starting in the 18th century, where philosophers started to get their sh*t together vis-a-vis the industrialization of man. He just had to compare and contrast Rousseau and Marx, and I'm pretty sure my son was just radicalized more effectively than I could have ever done.
Anyone have any other good 'classical' readings?