Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book:  Smith , Adam (1759), The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Retrieved on 2021-10-17
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17 OCT 2021

 We Would Lose Sleep Over the Loss of a Finger, but Not th...

Let us suppose that the great empire of China, with all its myriads of inhabitants, was suddenly swallowed up by an earthquake, and let us consider how a man of humanity in Europe, who had no sort of connection with that part of the world, would be affected upon receiving intelligence of this dreadful calamity. He would, I imagine, first of all express very strongly his sorrow for the misfortune of that unhappy people, he would make many melancholy reflections upon the precarious-ness of huma...
Folksonomies: morality
Folksonomies: morality
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