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Life of Adam Smith by John Rae
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Life of Adam Smith

By

JOHN RAE




London

MACMILLAN & CO.

AND NEW YORK


1895




PREFACE


The fullest account we possess of the life of Adam Smith is still the
memoir which Dugald Stewart read to the Royal Society of Edinburgh on
two evenings of the winter of 1793, and which he subsequently
published as a separate work, with many additional illustrative notes,
in 1810. Later biographers have made few, if any, fresh contributions
to the subject. But in the century that has elapsed since Stewart
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