The Theory of Moral Sentiments

We Would Lose Sleep Over the Loss of a Finger, but Not the Deaths of Everyone in a Foreign Country

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…

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