Essays / by Adam Smith.

Adam Smith

Date:: 1869

Credit: Essays / by Adam Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$.V .... sx...c™ OX TH. CO.CPT.OK. lO w» t.,cK „en,ble and »''f “ »'cSa »“■ as to be in pain or distress of any excites some degree that it is by changing ^ Z ^^^at he feels, may be demon- either to conceive or to be aHe^ y suffi- strated by many obvious ^ 3t,oke aimed and just ready ciently evident of itself. ,ve naturally shrink and to fall upon the leg or arm o . ^^,^3 (all, we feel draw back our own leg or ou ‘ sHfferer. The it in some measure, and are naturally mob when they are gazing a . bodies as they see him do, and Se and twist and balance^em own p as they feel that they themse ves mus': c o complain, that in S Sate fibres and a beggars i^ the looking on the sores and ulce sensation m the cor- streets, they are apt to feel an itchi g conceive responding part of their °'a o ^ particular part in thcrn- at the misery- of ^bose wretches ,vmg selves more than any other, ^ t^e wretches ^vhat they themselves particula^art in themselve whom they are looking ^ ' ame rniseraL manner. The very force was actually affected m the san produce Uiat of this conception is ’ i^ined of. Men of the most robust part of the body is in the weakest ,, „ow, ^ Neither is it those ^VhatJver is the passion which arises that call forth our fellow-feeling^ principally concerned, an analogous Zl any object in S bis^ituation, in the brea^o emotion springs up, at tl E deliverance of those he every attentive spectator. Our Joy ‘ ^ ^^r grief for of ttagedy or romance who ‘ rl^eir misery is not more rea their distress, and our fello^^-fee „ gratitude towards than that with their bapP'nes . Ise faithful bdendswho did notde^^^^^^^^ against those perfidmus we heartily go along with ^^eir re ^^ery passion traitors who injured, abandone > ^ emotions of the bystander :“l,ich the mind of mao « case homo .0 h.madf, h. Sncder\ea.W^^^ oftho sufferar.$

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