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Contents

• Biographical Sketch.................................................1
• Chapter 1:Historical Introduction...................................22
• Chapter 2:The Phenomena of Sympathy.................................29
• Chapter 3:Moral Approbation, and the Feeling of Propriety...........33
• Chapter 4:The Feeling of Merit and Demerit..........................46
• Chapter 5:Influence of Prosperity or Adversity, Chance, and Custom upon moral sentiments........56
• Chapter 6:Theory of Conscience and Duty.............................72
• Chapter 7:Theory of Moral Principles................................88
• Chapter 8:The relation of Religion to Morality......................98
• Chapter 9:Adam Smith's Theory of Virtue.............................107
• Chapter 10:Adam Smith's Theory of Happiness.........................127
• Chapter 11:Adam Smith's Theory of Final Causes in Ethics............135
• Chapter 12:Adam Smith's Theory of Utility...........................144
• Chapter 13:The Relation of Adam Smith's Theory to Other Systems of Morality.......................................................152
• Chapter 14:Review of the Principles of Criticisms of Adam Smith's Theory....................................................172