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

PART V. Of the INFLUENCE of CUSTOM and FASHION upon the sentiments of moral approbation and disappro|bation.

SECT. I. Of the Influence of custom and fashion upon our notions of beauty and deformity.

THERE are other principles, besides those already enumerated, which have a considerable influence upon the moral sentiments of mankind, and are the chief causes of the many irregular and discordant opinions which prevail in different ages and nations concerning what is blameable or praise worthy. These principles are custom and fashion, principles which extend their domi|nion over our judgments concerning beauty of every kind.

When two objects have frequently been seen together, the imagination acquires a ha|bit of passing easily from the one to the other. If the first appears we lay our account that the second is to follow. Of their own ac|cord

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Title: The theory of moral sentiments: By Adam Smith, ...
Author: Smith, Adam, 1723-1790.
Canvas: Page #364
Publication: London :: printed for A. Millar; and A. Kincaid and J. Bell, in Edinburgh,; 1759.

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