Introductory; individuality of Smith; nature of the work done
by him; he will be remembered only as an economist
Born at Kirkcaldy, June 5, 1723; his father and mother; his early
life; goes to Glasgow University at fourteen years of age;
afterwards gains a Snell Exhibition and goes to Oxford;
his experience there; goes to Edinburgh in 1748 and lec-
tures on Belles Lettres under patronage of Lord Kames;
friendship with Hume ; elected to chair of Logic in Glasgow
in 1751, and to chair of Moral Philosophy four years later;
descriptions of him by Professor Millar and Alexander
Carlyle; anecdote of his absent-mindedness; the Poker
Club and the Select Society; candidature of Hume and
Burke for chair of Logic at Glasgow; publication of
"Theory of Moral Sentiments" in 1759; letter from Hume
on its appearance; Smith engages himself to travel with
the Duke of Buccleuch in Europe; in 1763 they go to
Paris; letter to Hume from that city; the duke and Smith
go to Toulouse and return to Paris; Turgot and Quesnay;
Smith returns to Kirkcaldy and spends ten years in writing