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The theory of moral sentiments: By Adam Smith, ...

means, in favour of virtue, and in oppo|sition to vice, and like them, endeavours to turn away the arrow that is aimed at the head of the righteous, but accelerates the sword of destruction that is lifted up against the wicked; yet he is by no means able to render the fortune of either quite suitable to his own sentiments and wishes. The natural course of things cannot be entirely controuled by the impotent endea|vours of man: the current is too rapid and too strong for him to stop it; and tho' the rules which direct it appear to have been established for the wisest and best purposes, they sometimes produce ef|fects which shock all his natural senti|ments. That a great combination of men, should prevail over a small one; that those who engage in an enterprize with fore|thought and all necessary preparation, should prevail over such as oppose them without any; and that every end should be acquired by those means only which na|ture has established for acquiring it, seems to be a rule not only necessary and una|voidable in itself, but even useful and pro|per for rouzing the industry and attention of mankind. Yet, when in consequence
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The theory of moral sentiments: By Adam Smith, ...
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Smith, Adam, 1723-1790.
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London :: printed for A. Millar; and A. Kincaid and J. Bell, in Edinburgh,
1759.

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