Edition, in the last Chapter of the third Section of Part First; and in the four firft Chapters of Part Third. Part Sixth, as it ftands in this New Edition, is altogether new. In Part Seventh, I have brought together the greater part of the different paffages concerning the Stoical Philofophy, which, in the former Editions, had been scattered about in different parts of the work. I have likewife endeavoured to explain more fully, and examine more diftinctly, fome of the doctrines of that famous fect. In the fourth and laft Section of the fame Part, I have thrown together a few additional obfervations concerning the duty and principle of veracity. There are, besides, in other parts of the work, a few other alterations and corrections of no great moment, In the last paragraph of the firft Edition of the prefent work, I faid, that I should in another discourse endeavour to give an account of the general principles of law and government, and of the different revolutions which they had undergone in the different ages and periods of fociety; not only in what concerns juftice, but in what concerns police, revenue, and arms, and whatever elle is the object of law. In the Inquiry concerning the Nature and Caufes of the Wealth of Nations, I have partly executed this promise; at least fo far as concerns police, revenue, and arms. What remains, the theory of jurisprudence, which I have long projected, I have hitherto been hindered from executing,' by the fame occupations which had till now prevented me from revifing the present work. Though my very advanced age leaves me, I acknowledge, very little expectation of ever being able to execute this great work to my own fatisfaction; yet, as I have not altogether abandoned the defign, and as I wish still to continue under the obligation of doing what I can, I a 3 have allowed the paragraph to remain as it was published more than thirty years ago, when I entertained no doubt of being able to execute every thing which it announced. CHAP. II. Of the Pleafure of mutual Sympathy. 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. 15 Of the Effects of Profperity and Adversity upon the Judgment of Mankind with regard to the Propriety of Action; and why it is more easy That though our fympathy with forrow is generally a more lively fenfation than our fympathy with joy, it commonly falls much more short of the violence of what is naturally felt by the perfon prin- CHAP. III. Of the corruption of our moral fentiments, which is occafioned by this difpofition to admire the |