Further Antedating of "Social Science"

[Fred Shapiro]

social science (OED 1811)

1785 John Pinkerton _Letters of Literature_ 357 (Eighteenth Century
Collections Online)  IN Moral Philosophy and Social Science, these greatest
divisions of this grand part of knowlege, few or no advances have been
made.

Fred Shapiro


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