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Chapter 1. Historical Introduction

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Footnotes

Chapter 2. The Phenomena of Sympathy

Chapter 3. Moral Approbation, and the Feeling of Propriety.

Chapter 4. The Feeling of Merit and Demerit

Chapter 5. Influence of Prosperity or Adversity, Chance, and Custom Upon Moral Sentiments

Chapter 6. Theory of Conscience and Duty

Chapter 7. Theory of Moral Principles

Chapter 8. The Relation of Religion to Morality

Chapter 9. The Character of Virtue

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Chapter 10. Adam Smith's Theory of Happiness

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Chapter 11. Adam Smith's Theory of Final Causes in Ethics

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Chapter 12. Adam Smith's Theory of Utility

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Chapter 13. The Relation of Adam Smith's Theory to Other Systems of Morality

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Chapter 14. Review of the Principle Criticisms of Adam Smith's Theory

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Footnotes

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Mémoires, i. 244. "Sa Théorie des Sentiniens Moraux m'avait donné une grande idée de sa sagacité et sa sa profondeur." Yet, according to Grimm, it had no success in Paris.Corresp., iv. 291.

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See, for some anecdotes of this kind, theQuarterly Review, vol. xxxvi. 200.

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To this hope he still clung even in the sixth edition of his work, published the year of his death, 1790.

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A few of his letters are published in Lord Brougham'sAccount of Adam Smith's Life and Works, i. 279-89.