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1 For details on Smith’s time at Glasgow, see Scott, Adam Smith as Student and Professor. 2 For a contemporary biography, see Stewart, ‘Account of the Life and Writings of Adam Smith’. The best source for biographical details on Smith is Ross’s The Life of Adam Smith. Phillipson’s Adam Smith is the best intellectual biography, whilst Kennedy’s Adam Smith is the most rounded introduction to his economics and moral philosophy. Other general overviews include Lindgren’s Social Philosophy of Adam Smith and Muller’s Adam Smith in His Time and Ours. 3 The clearest introduction to the subject is Broadie’s The Scottish Enlightenment. The most comprehensive account of the social and political thought of the period is Berry’s Social Theory of the Scottish Enlightenment. 4 See Montes, ‘Newtonianism and Adam Smith’. 5 Hume, Treatise, 273. 6 Phillipson, Adam Smith, 71. Rasmussen’s The Infidel and the Professor is the best discussion of the close intellectual friendship between Hume and Smith.