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

given him for the direction of his condu••••▪ required him to choose and reject in this 〈◊〉〈◊〉. Among the primary objects of natural inclination, or among those things which nature had originally recommended to us 〈◊〉〈◊〉 eligible, was the prosperity of our family▪ of our relations, of our friends, of our coun••try, of mankind, and of the universe in ge••neral. Nature too had taught us that as 〈◊〉〈◊〉 prosperity of two was preferable to that 〈◊〉〈◊〉 one, that of many or of all must be 〈◊〉〈◊〉 more so. That we ourselves were but 〈◊〉〈◊〉▪ and that consequently wherever our 〈◊〉〈◊〉 was inconsistent with that either 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the whole, or of any considerable 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of the whole, it ought, even in our 〈◊〉〈◊〉 choice, to yield to what was so vastly prefer|able. As all the events in this world 〈◊〉〈◊〉 conducted by the providence of a 〈◊〉〈◊〉 powerful and good God, we might be 〈◊〉〈◊〉 that whatever happened, tended to 〈◊〉〈◊〉 prosperity and perfection of the whole. 〈◊〉〈◊〉 we ourselves, therefore, were in poverty, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 sickness, or in any other calamity, we 〈◊〉〈◊〉 first of all to use our utmost endeavours, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 far as justice and our duty to others would 〈◊〉〈◊〉, to rescue ourselves from this disagr••••••able circumstance. But if after all we 〈◊〉〈◊〉

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

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