Life of Adam Smith (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book Life of Adam Smith (Classic Reprint) written by R. B. Haldane and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-13 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Life of Adam Smith It is more difficult to write about a man of letters than about any other kind of great man. The individuality of an author, to whatever extent he may live in the creation of his pen, is immensely less bound up, in the public imagination, with his deeds, than is that of soldier or a statesman. If these deeds have fashioned far more subtle and less obvious in the former case than in the latter. The individuality of Adam Smith can hardly be said to be bound up at all with his deeds. Even in Kirkcaldy and Edinburgh, the places of his birth and of his death, but little memorial of him has survived. We think of him, in the main, and we think of him rightly, as the bosom friend of David Hume. It is to regretted, on nearly all scores, that the records of his life are so meagre. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.