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Index
In this index, Adam Smith is abbreviated to AS except in the main entry under his name. His papers and publications appear under their titles; all other publications are given under individual authors. Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations in the text.
Aarsleff, Hans: The Study of Languages in England … 297
Aberdeen, Marischal College 35
Academy of Fine Arts, Glasgow 127, 131
Act of Union 1707 9, 12, 26, 73, 74–6, 263, 277
effects of 77–8, 122, 235 see also Anglo-Scottish relations; Scottish politics
Adam, John (son of William Adam) 15, 256
Adam, Robert (son of William Adam) 15, 248, 256
Adam, William 15, 16, 17, 131
Addison, Joseph 97, 107, 148
on morals/ethics 19, 21–3, 148
Spectator essays 19, 21–3, 63, 78, 93
Additions and Corrections to the first and second editions of … the Wealth of Nations 264–6
see also Wealth of Nations
aesthetics, AS’s theory of 248–53, 261, 268, 309
agricultural economies 13, 78–9, 194–5
France as 186, 195–6, 218
AS on 174, 176, 197
agricultural improvement 203–4, 207, 218
American colonies, AS on, in Wealth of Nations 228–30, 233
see also Anglo-American relations
Amherst, Nicholas 56
Anderson, John, as Glasgow University Professor of Natural History 301n30
Anderson, R. D., M. Lynch and N. Phillipson: The University of Edinburgh … 494
Anglo-American relations 201, 258
American War of Independence 212, 262; effects of 262–3, 266
AS on 208, 211–13; his memorandum on 212–13, 306n27; in Wealth of Nations 211, 212, 228–9, 235–7, 239
see also American colonies
Anglo-Scottish relations 9–10, 27, 72, 73, 76–7, 277
Act of Union see Act of Union
Glorious Revolution, 1688 9–10, 26, 31, 32, 45
see also Jacobite rebellion; Scottish politics
Annual Register 162
Argyll, Archibald Campbell, third Duke see Islay, Archibald Campbell
Argyll, John Campbell, second Duke 58, 59, 60, 85, 122
Aristotle 93, 100, 101, 112
the arts see aesthetics
Aston, N. 308n18
astronomy, AS’s juvenile essay on 209, 279, 283–4
St Augustine 41, 46, 49, 61
Ayr Bank, collapse of 206, 207–8, 256
Bacon, Francis 2, 146
Baillie, Robert, as Glasgow University Principal 30
Balliol College see Oxford University, Balliol College
banking system 206–8
Barbyrac, Jean 46
Barfoot, M. 302
Bayle, Pierre 186
Dictionnaire historique et critique 61, 66
Beattie, Matthew 58
The Bee (journal) 281, 311n2
benevolence 48, 49–51, 52, 53, 54–5, 61–2, 149
Berry, C. J. 297
Black, Joseph 3, 128, 189, 241
AS and 259; as AS’s executor 259
Blair, Hugh
as Edinburgh University Regius Professor of Rhetoric and Belles-Lettres 36, 81, 90
AS and 119, 254, 255, 282
on Wealth of Nations 239, 254
Board of Customs, Scotland 255, 257
AS as Commissioner of Customs 1, 5, 10, 182, 209, 253–4, 260–61, 263, 264, 267, 268, 256; duties 257–9; salary 257
see also customs/excise
Board of Trustees for Fisheries and Manufactures 13
Bogle, Annie 123
Bogle, Robert 128–9
Bogle family 29
Bonnet, Charles 189
Bonnyman, Brian D.: ‘Agricultural Improvement in the Scottish Enlightenment . .’ (PhD thesis) 204, 306
Boswell, James 7, 64, 8
7, 132, 135, 169, 210, 247, 281
The Applause of the Jury 297
on Hercules Lindesay 125
Boyd, Zachary 39
Brewer, John: The Sinews of Power … 310n5
British Coffeehouse, Charing Cross 201, 209, 210
British Museum 201
Brown, A. H. 170
Brown, M.: Francis Hutcheson in Dublin … 289n19, 291
Brown, V.: Adam Smith’s Discourses … 300
Buccleuch, Duke of 181, 200, 204
Ayr Bank, investment in 207
career 200, 203
in Edinburgh, at Dalkeith House 203
health 198–9
David Hume and 211
marriage 203
Scottish estates 200, 203–4, 207, 306
AS and 200, 202–3, 204, 209, 211, 254, 256, 276, 306
AS as his tutor 76, 159–60, 179, 180–94, 198–9; curriculum 188; in France 183, 185–9, 190–94, 198–9; in Geneva 185, 189–90; in Germany 185; AS’s salary 182
on AS 183
Charles Townshend and 183–4, 202–3
Buchan, James, Earl of 10, 132, 268, 281
Buchan, James, author, Adam Smith and the Pursuit of Perfect Liberty 287
Buchanan, George 54
Burke, Edmund 126
Philosophical Inquiry into … the Sublime and the Beautiful 126
AS and 162, 210, 247, 257, 263, 281
on Theory of Moral Sentiments 162
Burns, Robert 21
Bute, John Stuart, third Earl 119, 159, 160
Thomas Caddell, as AS’s publisher 263, 267
Calas, Jean, execution of 186–7
Caledonian Mercury 89
Callander, David 260–61
Campbell, Ilay 203
Campbell, R. H. and A. S. Skinner: Adam Smith 201, 285, 286, 298
Campbell, T. D. 290–91
Adam Smith’s Science of Morals 300
Carlyle, Alexander 39–40, 80
on Duke of Buccleuch 203
on AS 184
on Charles Townshend 180–81, 303n8
Carmichael, Gersholm 43
as Glasgow University Professor of Moral Philosophy 34
Catherine the Great 170
Cebes: Tabula 19
Chalmers, George 119
Cicero 21, 22, 93, 125, 220
De Officiis 19
De Finibus 149, 299n12
on Stoic ethics 149, 299n12
citizenship 272–3
civil society concept 2, 3, 44–5, 83
civilizing process 49, 50, 54, 141, 156, 157–8, 217, 271
aesthetics and 248–53
trade/commerce and 137, 142, 143–4, 146–7, 175–6, 178, 179
clan system 83, 84–5
Cleghorn, William, as Edinburgh University Professor of Moral Philosophy 102
Clerk, John 30
Clow, James, as Glasgow University Professor of Logic and Metaphysics 126
Cocceii, Henry and Samuel 125
Cochrane, Andrew 40, 129
Colbert, Abbé, Vicar-General of Toulouse 185, 187
Colbert, Jean-Baptiste 195, 198
commerce see trade/commerce
Condillac, Étienne Bonnot de 101, 165, 194, 218
Essai sur l’origine des connoissances humaines 94–5, 103
‘Considerations Concerning the First Formation of Languages’ 165–6
Craig, William 261
Craigie, Thomas, as Glasgow University Professor of Moral Philosophy 121–2
Crawford, William 128–9
credit supply 207
Critical Review 162–3, 301n7
Crosse, William 84–5
Cullen, Robert 261
Cullen, William 80, 125, 127
at Edinburgh University 128; as Professor of Chemistry 81
as Glasgow University Professor of Medicine 121, 125, 128
AS and 119, 121, 183, 210–11; as AS’s doctor 179
Cunninghame, William 29, 122–3
customs/excise 10, 12, 14, 257
see also Board of Customs; trade/commerce
d’Alembert, Jean le Rond 2, 186, 192
see also Diderot, Denis and Jean d’Alembert
d’Enville, Duchesse (mother of La Rochefoucauld) 190, 192–3
d’Holbach, Baron 192–3
Dalrymple, Sir David 184, 303n9
Dalrymple, Sir John 129, 159
Davidson, Archibald, as Glasgow University Principal 268
Davis, H. W. C.: Balliol College 292
de Boufflers, Comtesse 184, 192–3
de Brienne, Loménie, Archbishop of Toulouse 186, 187
de la Rochefoucauld see La Rochefoucauld
de Mandran, Louis 187
De Marchi, N. 309
De Origine Idearum (inaugural dissertation at Glasgow University) 120
defence/war 232
financing/cost of 187, 198, 212, 213, 232, 235–6, 263
Defoe, Daniel, on Glasgow 25–6, 29, 30–31, 39
Dennison, E. P. and R. Coleman: Historic Kirkcaldy … 288
Descartes, René 146
Desnitsky, Semyon 170
Devine, T. M.: The Tobacco Lords … 290
Devine, T. M. and G. Jackson (eds): Glasgow … 288n2, 290
Dick, Robert 42
Diderot, Denis and Jean d’Alembert: Encyclopédie 131, 146, 193
Dinwiddie family 29
‘Dissertation on the Origin of Language’ 201
division of labour 118, 175, 176–8, 205, 248, 302
see also labour/labour force
Douglas, David (nephew and heir of AS) 257, 292n8
Douglas, Janet (cousin of AS) 121, 257
Douglas, Margaret see Smith, Margaret
Douglas family (of Strathendry) 10, 14, 17
Drummond, Sir George (father of Lilias Drummond) 10
Drummond, Lilias see Smith, Lilias
du Pont de Nemours, Pierre-Samuel 193
Dundas, Henry 73, 204
as Lord Advocate 258
AS and 204, 258, 263, 267–8
Dundas, Robert 85
Dunlop, Alexander, as Glasgow University Professor of Greek 34, 41, 56
Dunlop, John 124
Dunlop, William, as Glasgow University Principal 32
Dwyer, J.: The Age of Passions … 300
East India Company 201, 265–6
economic conditions 12–13, 75–7, 79, 85, 114–15, 117, 177–8, 219–20, 225–6
capital supply 221–2
consumption 115–16, 123
credit supply 207
in France 185, 186, 187, 272–3
income levels 122, 123
money supply 178, 206–8, 222, 225–6
see also trade/commerce
Edgar, James 257
Edinburgh 73, 78, 79–80, 202
as the Athens of the North 81–2
Duke of Buccleuch in, at Dalkeith House 203
development/expansion 255–6, 309n2
Enlightenment in 75, 79, 81, 88, 144
intellectual/cultural life 24, 72, 76, 78–9, 81, 82, 89–90, 119, 255, 259–60
Jacobite rebellion 1745, effects on 82–5
learned societies 78, 80, 81, 119, 128
population levels 26
public lectures 89; AS’s see jurisprudence, AS’s Edinburgh lectures and rhetoric, AS’s Edinburgh lectures
Royal Exchange 255, 256, 257
AS in, at Panmure House 10, 254, 256–7
social structure 73–4, 75–6, 78
Edinburgh Advertiser 203–4
Edinburgh Review 145, 159, 282
AS published in 4
Edinburgh Royal Infirmary 128
Edinburgh University 7, 39–40, 74, 79–80, 82, 256
academic staff 42, 80, 81, 86, 102; see also individual professors
Joseph Black at 128
Hugh Blair as Regius Professor of Rhetoric and Belles-Letters 36, 81, 90
William Cullen at 128; as Professor of Chemistry 81
curriculum 81, 88
development/growth 79, 81
Adam Ferguson as Professor of Natural/Moral Philosophy 81, 128
Henry Home at 80
David Hume at 64
in Jacobite rebellion, 1745 82, 83
management 79
Moral Philosophy chair 65, 81
Principals 35, 81, 83, 256
Public Law chair 128
reputation 127, 128
John Stevenson as Professor of Logic and Metaphysics 80, 88, 90
Dugald Stewart at 128
students/student numbers 81, 127, 128
teaching standards, criticism of 80–81, 102
education
humanist 18–19
AS on, in Wealth of Nations 233–4
see also individual institutions; universities
Egmont, Lord 57
Elliot, Gilbert 163–4
AS and 166
on Theory of Moral Sentiments 163, 164–5
Emerson, R. L. 290
English philosophers/philosophy 4, 145–6
see also individual philosophers
Enlightenment see Scottish Enlightenment
Epicetus 19, 22
Enchiridion 19–20, 21
Nicholas Phillipson Page 40