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Table of Contents

1 Life of Adam Smith, “Great Writers” series.

2 Life and Correspondence of David Hume, 1846.

3 See Foundations of Political Economy, The Walter Scott Publishing Company, Limited.

4 His Treatise of Human Nature, regarding the publication of which he wrote in 1751 to Sir Gilbert Elliot, of Minto—“I was carried away by the heat of youth and invention to publish too precipitately. So vast an undertaking, planned before I was one-and-twenty, and composed before I was twenty-five, must necessarily be very defective. I have repented my haste a hundred and a hundred times.”

5 Haldane, Life of Adam Smith, “Great Writers” series.

6 Hume’s view is the juster here.