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- The_Poker_Club abstract "The Poker Club was one of several clubs at the heart of the Scottish Enlightenment where many associated with that movement met and exchanged views in a convivial atmosphere. The Poker Club was created out of the ashes of The Select Society. Adam Smith said, \"Divided counsels and diminished zeal supply, no doubt, the main reason for the decay of the Poker Club,\" but he also mentioned the rising costs to members.The Poker was the name given to the Militia Club at its third or fourth meeting. The Militia was formed in Edinburgh to promote the cause of establishing a militia in Scotland. It was thought that the formation of a democratic national force was essential to grace the dignity of the nation and the aim was to make up for the omission of that provision in the Militia Act of 1757 which applied only to England and the vetoing of the Scottish Militia Bill 1708. The aim of the club provoked some unwelcome opposition and, at the suggestion of Adam Smith the name was changed so as to be enigmatic to the general public. Much as a fireplace poker stirs a fire to flame up, The Poker was to \"stir up\" the militia question.The club was said by Dr Carlyle to consist of all the literati of Edinburgh and its surroundings. The establishment was frugal and moderate, \"as that for all clubs for a public purpose should be. The dinner was set soon after two o'clock, at one shilling a head, the wine to be confined to sherry and claret, and the reckoning to be called at six o’clock\".The first fifteen members were chosen by nomination, the rest by ballot, \"two black balls to exclude the candidate\". A new \"preses\" (chairman) was chosen at each meeting. There were three office bearers: the Secretary, Sir William Pulteney, the Assassin, Andrew Crosbie and the Assassin’s Assessor, David Hume \"without whose assent nothing could be done, so that between \"plus\" and \"minus\" there was likely to be no bloodshed\".The minute book of 1776 names forty three members, including Joseph Black, \"Jupiter\" Carlyle, Sir John Clerk of Eldin, Henry Dundas, Adam Ferguson, Lord Elibank, Sir John Dalrymple, John Hume, David Hume, William Robertson, John Robison, George Dempster, and Adam Smith.David Hume could well find the company of The Poker a relief from a skeptical depression - \"Most fortunately it happens that since reason is incapable of dispelling these clouds, nature herself suffices to that purpose ... I dine, I play a game of backgammon, I converse, and am merry with my friends; and when after three or four hours amusement, I return to these speculations, they appear so cold, and strain'd, and ridiculous, that I cannot find it in my heart to enter into them any farther.\"".
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- The_Poker_Club wikiPageWikiLink Alexander_Carlyle.
- The_Poker_Club wikiPageWikiLink Andrew_Crosbie.
- The_Poker_Club wikiPageWikiLink Backgammon.
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- The_Poker_Club wikiPageWikiLink Category:Scottish_Enlightenment.
- The_Poker_Club wikiPageWikiLink David_Hume.
- The_Poker_Club wikiPageWikiLink Edinburgh.
- The_Poker_Club wikiPageWikiLink Edinburgh_Cape_Club.
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- The_Poker_Club wikiPageWikiLink George_Dempster_of_Dunnichen.
- The_Poker_Club wikiPageWikiLink Henry_Dundas,_1st_Viscount_Melville.
- The_Poker_Club wikiPageWikiLink Invoice.
- The_Poker_Club wikiPageWikiLink John_Clerk_of_Eldin.
- The_Poker_Club wikiPageWikiLink John_Dalrymple_(political_writer).
- The_Poker_Club wikiPageWikiLink John_Robison_(physicist).
- The_Poker_Club wikiPageWikiLink Joseph_Black.
- The_Poker_Club wikiPageWikiLink London.
- The_Poker_Club wikiPageWikiLink Militia.
- The_Poker_Club wikiPageWikiLink Militia_Act_of_1757.
- The_Poker_Club wikiPageWikiLink Minutes.
- The_Poker_Club wikiPageWikiLink Patrick_Murray,_5th_Lord_Elibank.
- The_Poker_Club wikiPageWikiLink Scotland.
- The_Poker_Club wikiPageWikiLink Scottish_Enlightenment.
- The_Poker_Club wikiPageWikiLink Scottish_Militia_Bill.
- The_Poker_Club wikiPageWikiLink Sherry.
- The_Poker_Club wikiPageWikiLink Shilling.
- The_Poker_Club wikiPageWikiLink Sir_William_Pulteney,_5th_Baronet.
- The_Poker_Club wikiPageWikiLink The_Select_Society.
- The_Poker_Club wikiPageWikiLink University_of_Edinburgh.
- The_Poker_Club wikiPageWikiLink William_Blackwood.
- The_Poker_Club wikiPageWikiLink William_Robertson_(historian).
- The_Poker_Club wikiPageWikiLinkText "Poker Club".
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- The_Poker_Club subject Category:Clubs_and_societies_in_Scotland.
- The_Poker_Club subject Category:Defunct_organisations_of_Scotland.
- The_Poker_Club subject Category:Military_of_Scotland.
- The_Poker_Club subject Category:Organisations_based_in_Edinburgh.
- The_Poker_Club subject Category:Political_pressure_groups_of_Scotland.
- The_Poker_Club subject Category:Scottish_Enlightenment.
- The_Poker_Club hypernym Clubs.
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- The_Poker_Club comment "The Poker Club was one of several clubs at the heart of the Scottish Enlightenment where many associated with that movement met and exchanged views in a convivial atmosphere. The Poker Club was created out of the ashes of The Select Society. Adam Smith said, \"Divided counsels and diminished zeal supply, no doubt, the main reason for the decay of the Poker Club,\" but he also mentioned the rising costs to members.The Poker was the name given to the Militia Club at its third or fourth meeting.".
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