St James’ Chronicle 274–5
Sakamoto, T. 301n7
science, AS on 283–4
science of man concept
Henry Home’s theory of 86, 88
David Hume’ theory of 64, 65–7, 70–71, 96, 138, 140–41, 147–8, 237, 279–82
religion/theology and 66–7, 280–81, 292–3
AS’s theory of 2–3, 4, 6–7, 65–6, 67, 71, 88, 89, 93, 101,103, 157–8, 190, 221, 237–8, 279–82; as incomplete 3, 6, 261, 279–80; influences on 146; see also Theory of Moral Sentiments
see also human nature
Scott, Campbell (brother of Duke of Buccleuch) 189, 199
Scott, Lady Frances 304n51
Scott, W. R.
Adam Smith as Student and Professor 285, 286, 290, 298
Francis Hutcheson … 290
Scott, Sir Walter 260
Scottish Enlightenment 5, 39–40, 54, 65, 67, 141, 149, 167, 179, 190, 225, 237, 243
in Edinburgh 75, 79, 81, 88, 144
in Glasgow 128–30
Scottish history/politics 5, 9, 31, 32, 73–7
clan system 83, 84–5
see also Anglo-Scottish relations; Jacobite rebellion
Select Society 81, 87, 113, 119, 145, 155, 180–81, 296n42
Seven Years War, 1756–63 185, 187, 188, 200, 256
Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, third Earl
Characteristicks of Men … 46–7; Bernard Mandeville’s critique of 47–8, 98, 295n17
as a deist 47, 50
writing style 97–8
Shelburne, first Earl 159, 166, 168, 179, 184
Shelburne, second Earl 169–70, 201, 258, 259, 263
Sher, R. B. 300
Church and University in the Scottish Enlightenment … 294
The Enlightenment and the Book … 300
Sidney, Algernon 54
Simson, John, as Glasgow University Professor of Divinity 33, 34, 42
Simson, Robert (nephew of John Simson)
as Glasgow University Professor of Mathematics 24, 34, 42, 167, 171
AS, his influence on 24–5
Skinner, A. S. 178, 302
A System of Social Sciences … 300
Skinner, Q.: Reason and Rhetoric … 297
Smith, Adam (AS)
administrative abilities 130, 158, 170–71, 276
biographies of 5–8, 285, 286–7; see also individual authors
birth/baptism 9, 16–17
career 1, 2, 4–5; see also individual posts
character 1, 3, 4, 5–6, 8, 56, 59, 121, 135–6, 159, 171, 184, 202, 248, 259–60, 275–7, 284, 301n30
childhood 4, 10, 12, 14, 15, 16, 23
correspondence see individual correspondents
documentary sources on 4–6; students notes 6–7, 91, 92, 100–101, 105, 107, 172
education: primary (burgh school) 10, 17–21, 23, 36; university 2, 4, 10, 18, 23, 24–5, 39–42, 43, 45, 49, 50, 56, 59, 60–64, 72, 291
family 8, 9, 11, 14, 267; see also individual family members
financial position 72, 182, 209, 2`4, 253, 257, 266
guardians under his father’s will 14, 15, 58, 291
health 2, 3, 4, 16–17, 136–7, 179, 208, 210, 258, 267, 268, 302; as a hypochondriac 2, 179, 302
intellectual ideas/development 2–3, 4, 7, 23, 24–5, 87–8, 105, 117–18, 296–7
lecturing style 90, 92, 134–5, 276
library 18, 19, 59, 131, 248
linguistic abilities 18, 40–41, 60–61
papers/publications 2, 3, 4, 6, 89, 105, 145; posthumous destruction of unpublished papers 3, 4, 209, 248, 279; see also individual titles
personal appearance 5, 56
private life 136, 192–3, 257, 259–60
religious beliefs 58, 84, 132, 133, 244, 281
reputation 1–2, 6, 135, 136, 166–7, 170, 253, 254, 260, 263, 267–8, 275–7
his students, relationship with 135–6, 168, 182–3
his will 3, 209, 279
writing style 4, 149, 162, 163
death 3, 183, 274; obituary notices 274–5; tombstone 278
Smith, Adam (Sr) (father of AS) 9, 15, 19
career 9–10, 12
financial position 10
marriages 10
his will 14, 15
death 10, 14
Smith, Adam (III) (cousin of AS) 14
Smith, Hercules (cousin of AS) 14
Smith, Hugh (elder half-brother of AS) 10, 14, 17
Smith, Lilias (née Drummond) (Mrs Adam Smith Senior (I)) 10
Smith, Margaret (née Douglas) (Mrs Adam Smith Senior (II)) (mother of AS) 10, 56, 257
in Edinburgh 10, 256, 257
family 10, 14
in Glasgow 121
health 256
in Kirkcaldy 10, 15, 56, 201
Conrad Metz’s portrait of 257
AS’s relationship with 6, 10–11, 17, 39, 179, 261, 262, 291
death 2, 10–11, 258, 261–2
Smith, William (cousin of AS) 58–9, 85, 222, 291
AS, correspondence with 59, 222
‘Smith’s Thoughts on the Contest with America …’ 212–13, 306n27
Smout, Christopher 27, 124
Snell, John 58
AS at Balliol College as Snell exhibitor 2, 4, 24, 25, 56, 72, 291
socialibility theory see moral economy
Sonenscher, M.: Before the Deluge … 305
sovereigns/sovereignty see nobility/sovereignty
Spain 262
The Spectator see Addison, Joseph
spectator theory of virtue 2, 20–21, 22, 50, 107–8
company of strangers concept 22–3
Epicetus on 20, 107
imagination and 156–7
AS on 154–7, 164–5, 270–71, 274, 300
Speirs, Alexander 29, 122–3
Stevenson, John
as Edinburgh University Professor of Logic and Metaphysics 80, 88, 90
on rhetoric 93
Stewart, Dugald 282, 283
at Edinburgh University 128
on James Oswald 16
AS and 194
as AS’s biographer 2, 3, 4, 10, 42, 58, 60, 94, 104, 105–6, 117, 129–30, 132, 166, 169, 171–2, 183, 194, 260, 275, 276, 285, 286, 292, 298, 304
on Wealth of Nations 216, 217
Stewart, Matthew (father of Dugald Stewart), as Edinburgh University Professor of Mathematics 42
Stirling, John, as Glasgow University Principal 32–3
Stoic ethics 19, 21, 22, 23, 45, 51, 54, 148, 149–50, 300
Cicero on 149, 299n12
Strahan, William
on David Hume: My Life 247–8
as a printer/publisher 159, 213
AS and 159, 213, 247–8; as his publisher 10
AS, correspondence with 10–11, 242, 243–4, 261–2
Strang, J.: Glasgow and its Clubs 298–9
Sutherland, L. S. and L. G. Mitchell (eds): History of the University of Oxford … 292
Swift, Jonathan 97
sympathy
as deference 152–4
definition 148–9
David Hume on 148, 163
pity and 149–50
AS on 148–54, 165, 173, 282
see also human nature
Tacitus, AS on 99–100
Tassie, James, his medallions of AS 5
taste see aesthetics
taxation 187, 188, 212, 213
in France 195–6, 198
public credit 234, 235
AS on, in Wealth of Nations 231, 232, 234–6
AS’s work on, at Board of Customs 258
Charles Townshend on 200–201
Temple, Sir William 97
theatre, education and 18–19
Theory of Moral Sentiments 2, 4, 6, 130, 170, 190, 300
additions/revisions 159, 163, 166, 187, 201, 266, 267, 268–74, 311
bibliographical history 154, 156, 201, 214, 248, 302
French translation: La Métaphysique de l’âme 191–2
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br /> impact/importance 160–65, 191–2, 238, 275, 301n7, 302; criticism of 269–71, 282; in France 191–2
print run 159
publication 159, 160, 300
on Racine: Phaedre 62–3
reviews see impact/importance above
selling price/sales figures 159
AS on 274
subject matter 61, 64, 101, 114, 133, 148, 169, 174, 269–74; citizenship 272–3; deference 152–4; spectator theory 154–7, 270–71; sympathy 148–54; virtue 271–4; conclusion 157
title page 139
writing of 137, 148, 159, 216
writing style 248
Thom, William 130
Thomson, J: An Account of the Life … of William Cullen 125
Thucydides 111
tobacco barons 28–9, 122–3, 129, 290
tobacco trade 25, 27–9, 122–3, 124, 129, 290
Toulouse 186–7
AS in, with Duke of Buccleuch 183, 185–9, 191
see also France
Toulouse University 186
Townshend, Charles (father of Duke of Buccleuch) 180, 203, 304n51
Duke of Buccleuch and 183–4, 202–3
Alexander Carlyle on 180–81, 303n8
as Chancellor of Exchequer 200–201
David Hume and 180
as an economist 188, 200
as an orator 180–81
AS and 159–60, 181–2, 189, 199, 200–201, 303n8
on AS 180, 184–5
on taxation 200–201
death 202–3
trade/commerce 9, 22, 23, 74, 76–7, 223
as civilizing 137, 142, 143–4, 146–7, 175–6, 178, 179
customs/excise 10, 12, 14, 257
domestic/foreign, comparison of 224–6, 227
in France 195–6, 198
free trade see free trade
in Glasgow 25, 26–7, 122, 123–4; tobacco trade 25, 27–9, 122–3, 124, 129, 290
David Hume on 129, 137, 141–2, 143–4
in Kirkcaldy 11–14; linen industry 12, 13–14, 264
protectionism 227; see also trade liberalization
AS on, in Wealth of Nations 114–18, 124, 129, 205, 222–30, 231, 264–6
smugglers/smuggling 26, 27, 122
see also economic conditions
trade expansion 3, 11–12, 26–9, 54, 178, 205
trade liberalization 265, 267
see also free trade
trade monopolies 16, 129, 229, 230, 265–6
trade regulation 158, 195, 229, 264–5
Navigation Acts 27, 29, 122, 229
trading companies 265–6
East India Company 201, 265–6
tobacco barons 28–9, 122–3, 129, 290
Tret’yakov, Ivan 170
Tribe, K. (ed.): A Critical Bibliography of Adam Smith 302
Trogus: De Historiis Philippicis 18
Tronchin, François-Louis 189
Tronchin, Théodore (father of François-Louis Tronchin) 170, 189–90, 199
Tuck, R.: Philosophy and Government … 290
Tucker, Josiah 213, 275, 277
Turgot, Anne Robert Jacques 186, 190, 192, 193
AS on 194
Turnbull, George 35
Tytler, A. F. (Lord Woodhouselee): Memoirs … of the Honourable Henry Home of Kames 89, 90, 294
Ulster 27, 34
see also Ireland
understanding, imagination and 96
United States see American colonies; Anglo-American relations
universities 79, 81
philosophy curriculum 31–2, 34, 40
religious issues 31, 32, 33, 124, 126; Presbyterian Church and 31–2, 33, 37–8
role 35
see also individual institutions
university reform 35–6
value see price/value
virtue 43, 154, 271–4
prudence 271–2
spectator theory of see spectator theory
Vivenza, G.: Adam Smith and the Classics … 300
Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet de 58, 170, 189
on Jean Calas 186–7
Henriade, Henry Home on 192
AS and 190
Walpole, Horace 263
Walpole Sir Robert 26, 33
war see defence/war
Watson, Robert 90
Watt, James 131
Wealth of Nations 6, 214–38
Additions and Corrections 262, 263–6
on Anglo-American relations 211, 212, 228–9, 235–7, 239
bibliographical history 4, 214, 232, 258, 262, 263–4, 266, 275, 283
historical context 307–8
David Hume’s influence on 141
impact/importance 1, 2, 214, 216–17, 230–31, 237–8, 239–41, 254, 267, 275, 306n1; criticism of 282–3
Introduction/Plan 217–18
language of 217
publication 1, 5, 159, 214
readership 214, 266, 267–8
reviews see impact/importance above
selling price/sales figures 214, 266
AS on 194
subject matter 2–3, 4, 16, 57, 101, 114, 133, 172, 177, 214, 216–38; America 211, 212, 228–30, 233, 235–7, 239; banking system 207–8; French economists 193–4, 195, 197, 217, 230; government 230–35; taxation 231, 232, 234–6; trade/commerce 114–18, 124, 129, 205, 222–30, 231, 264–6
title page 214, 215
writing of 4, 10, 188, 197, 201, 204, 205, 208, 209, 213, 216–17
Wedderburn, Alexander 90, 136, 159, 210, 213
as Solicitor General 253
West, E. G. 300
West Indies 228
Wight, Rev. William 129
Winch, D.: Adam Smith’s Politics … 308
Windham, William 257
Wishart, William, as Edinburgh University Principal 35, 83
Wodrow, James, on Theory of Moral Sentiments 161
Wodrow, Robert 37–8
women, in French intellectual life 192–3
Woodhouselee, Lord see Tytler, A. F.
Young, Thomas 182
Youngson, A. J.: The Making of Classical Edinburgh … 309n2
Table of Contents
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Dedication
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Maps
KIRKCALDY, c. 1730
GLASGOW c. 1776
EDINBURGH, c. 1776
Adam Smith
Prologue
1: A Kirkcaldy Upbringing
2: Glasgow, Glasgow University and Francis Hutcheson’s Enlightenment
3: Private Study 1740–46: Oxford and David Hume
4: Edinburgh’s Early Enlightenment
5: Smith’s Edinburgh Lectures: a Conjectural History
6: Professor of Moral Philosophy at Glasgow, 1. 1751–9
7: The Theory of Moral Sentiments and the Civilizing Powers of Commerce
8: Professor of Moral Philosophy at Glasgow, 2. 1759–63
9: Smith and the Duke of Buccleuch in Europe 1764–6
10: London, Kirkcaldy and the Making of the Wealth of Nations 1766–76
11: The Wealth of Nations and Smith’s ‘Very violent attack … upon the whole commercial system of Great Britain’
12: Hume’s Death
13: Last Years in Edinburgh 1778–90
Epilogue
Illustrations
Notes and Sources
Bibliography of Works Cited
Index
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