Andrew Baxter

Andrew Baxter (born 1686/87, Aberdeen, Scot.—died April 23, 1750, Whittingehame, East Lothian) was a Scottish metaphysical rationalist who maintained the essential distinction between matter and spirit, resisting the more advanced British epistemology of his century. Having gone to Utrecht in the Netherlands as tutor to two young gentlemen in 1741, he went on an excursion to Spain in 1745 and there met the English political radical John Wilkes, for whose intellect he conceived a fervent...