"What the circumstances are, which, in modern Europe, have contributed to disturb this order of nature, and, in particular, to encourage the industry of towns, at the expense of that of the country, Mr. Smith has investigated with great ingenuity; and in such a manner, as to throw much new light on the history of that state of society which prevails in this quarter of the globe. His observations on this subject tend to show, that these circumstances were, in their first origin, the natural and the unavoidable result of the peculiar situation of mankind during a certain period; and that they took their rise, not from any general scheme of policy, but from the private interests and prejudices of particular orders of men."
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Dugald Stewart, Account of the Life and Writings of Adam Smith, LL.D., quoted in The Works of Dugald Stewart, Vol. VII (1829), p. 57
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Adam Smith
1723 – 1790
schottischer Moralphilosoph und Ă–konom
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