THE ORY

O F

MORAL SENTIMENTS;

O R,

A NE S SA Y

TOWARDS

An ANALYSIS of the PRINCIPLES by which MEN naturally
judge concerning the CONDUCT and CHARACTER, first of
their NEIGHBOURS, and afterwards of THEMSELVES.

TO WHICH IS ADDED,

A DISSERTATION

ON THE

ORIGIN OF

LANGUAGES.

BY ADAM SMITH, L. L. D. F. R. S.

Formerly Professor of Philosophy in the University of Glasgow; and Authər
of the Nature and Cause of the Wealth of Nations.

THE SIXTH EDITION.

DUBLIN:

Printed for J. BEATTY and C. JACKSON, No. 32, Skinner-Row.

M,DCC,LXXVII.

YFE

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CHAP. II. Of the Pleasure of mutual Sympathy

9

CHAP. III. Of the manner in which we judge of the

propriety or impropriety of the affections of other

men, by their concord or diffonance with our own 14

CHAP, IV. The fame fubject continued

CHAP. V. Of the amiable and refpectable virtues 27

SECTION II.

19

Of the degrees of the different paffions which are

confiftent with propriety

33

CHAP. I. Of the paffions which take their origin from

34

the body

CHAP. II. Of those paffions which take their origin

from a particular turn or habit of the imagination 41

Of the effects of profperity and adversity upon the

judgment of mankind with regard to the propri-

ety of action; and why it is more easy to obtain

their approbation in the one ftate than in the

other
46

CHAP. I. That though our Sympathy with forrow

is generally a more lively fenfation than our Sympathy.

with joy, it commonly falls much more bort of the

violence of what is naturally felt by the perfon prin-

cipally concerned.

ibid.

CHAP. II. Of the origin of ambition, and of the dif

tinction of ranks

CHAP. III. Of the ftoical philofophy

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PART II.

Of Merit and Demerit; or of the objects

of reward and punishment.

SECTION I.

Of the fense of merit and demerit

97

CHAP. I. That whatever appears to be the proper ob-

ject of gratitude, appears to deferve reward; and

that, in the fame manner, whatever appears to be the

proper object of resentment, appears to deserve pu-

nishment

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