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

any account which does not preserve some little regard to the truth. Some of the articles, at least, must be just, and even those which are most overcharged must have had some foundation, otherwise the fraud would ••e detected even by that careless inspection which we are disposed to give. The author who should assign, as the cause of any natu|••al sentiment, some principle which neither ••ad any connection with it, nor resembled ••ny other principle which had some such ••onnection, would appear absurd and ridicu|••ous to the most injudicious and unexperi|••nced reader.