[vi] new. In Part Seventh, I have brought together the greater part of the different paffages concerning the Stoical Philosophy, 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 last Section of the fame Part, I have thrown together a few additional obfervations concerning the duty and principle of veracity. There are, befides, in other parts of the work, a few other alterations and corrections of no great moment. In the last paragraph of the first Edition of the prefent work, I faid, that I fhould in another difcourfe 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 only in what concerns juftice, but in what concerns police, revenue, and arms, and whatever else is the object of law. In the Enquiry concerning the Nature and Caufes of the Wealth of Nations, I have partly executed this promise; at leaft 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 revising 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 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. |