Of those passions which take their origin from a particular turn or habit of the imagination

Vernon L. Smith ()
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Chapter Chapter 8 in Adam Smith’s Theory of Society, 2025, pp 53-57 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Even of the passions derived from the imagination, those which take their origin from a peculiar turn or habit it has acquired…are…but little sympathized with. The imaginations of mankindLoveof Mankind, not having acquired that particular turn, cannot enter into them; and such passions, though they may be allowed to be almost unavoidable in some part of life, are always in some measure ridiculous.

Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-68494-4_8

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