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Introductory; individuality of Smith; nature of the work done
by him; he will be remembered only as an economist

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CHAPTER II.

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

"The Wealth of Nations"; publishes this work in 1776;

Hume's letter of congratulation; Hume endeavours to get

Smith to act as his literary executor; Smith's letter on

Hume's death in 1776; reception of "Wealth of Nations";

anecdote of Pitt; Smith goes to London; supposed en-

counter with Johnson; returns to Edinburgh, 1778; his

life there, and his appointment as Commissioner of Cus-

toms; letter to him from the Bishop of Norwich on Hume's

death; Smith's manner of composition; elected Lord

Rector of Glasgow in 1787; death in 1790

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CHAPTER III.

Smith as a moralist; his style; his apparent reluctance to be

thought a sceptic; his consequent failure to establish his

ethical system on a philosophical basis; his predecessors in

philosophy; Locke; Berkeley and the "New Question";

Hume's further application of the experimental method;

Smith adopts Hume's method; sympathy his fundamental

principle; neither Smith nor Hume utilitarians; "merit

and demerit"; conscience; the character of virtue; works

on other subjects; "Considerations concerning the First

Formation of Languages"; "Principles which lead and

direct Philosophical Enquiries as illustrated by the History

of the Ancient Physics," and by the "History of Ancient

Logic and Metaphysics"; "Nature of that Imitation which

takes place in what are called the Imitative Arts"; Essay

on the external senses; "English and Italian verses";

Smith apparently contemplated a great work on the

theories of ethics, and of jurisprudence

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CHAPTER IV.

Pitt cites Smith in House of Commons on tendency of capital

to accumulate Smith's influence on Pitt• the concrete