At the Cemetery

I decided to go walking through the St. Andrews cemetery today; which is less morbid than it sounds. The cemetery is on the cathedral grounds and is right in the middle of town. The above picture is of Adam Ferguson's grave, who was a one of the great philosophers of the Scottish Enlightenmen, and the author of Essay on Civil Society. Here is the inscription,

Here rest the Mortal Remains of Adam Ferguson, L.L.D. Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of Edinburgh. He was born at Logierait in the County of Perth, on the 20th June, 1722, and died in this City of Saint Andrews, on the 22d day of February, 1816. Unseduced by the temptations of pleasure, power, or ambition, he employed the interval between his childhood and his grave with unostentatious and steady perseverance in acquiring and in diffusing knowledge, and in the practice of public and domestic virtue. To his venerated memory, this monument is erected by his children, that they may record his piety to God and benevolence to man, and commemorate the eloquence and energy with which he inculcated the precepts of morality, and prepared the youthful mind for virtuous actions. But a more imperishable memorial of his genius exists in his philosophical and historical works, where classic elegance, strength of reasoning, and clearness of detail, secured the applause of the age in which he lived, and will long continue to deserve the gratitude and commend the admiration of posterity.

And here a a few more photos.