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stance, too, which we shall presently see was destined to 

 have a great influence on his future prospects. The 

 celebrated Charles Townsend said, on reading the book, 

 that he should make it worth the author's while to under- 

 take the charge of the young Duke of Buccleugh's educa- 

 tion, whose mother, the dowager Duchess, he had married. 



The success of this excellent work, however, was con- 

 fined, at least for a long time, to the author's own 

 country. It was soon translated into French, and the 

 publisher sought to give it more attraction by adding an 

 absurd title to the original one he called it ' Metaphy- 

 sique de 1'Ame." Grimm commends this as extremely 

 clever; but adds that it had failed to obtain for the book 

 any attention, and that it had entirely failed at Paris, 

 which, however, he observes, proved nothing against its 

 merits.* 



After the ' Theory of Moral Sentiments' was published, 

 Dr. Smith naturally made considerable changes in his 

 course of lectures during the four years that he remained 

 in Glasgow College. He greatly curtailed the second 

 branch, having incorporated so large a portion of it in his 

 book; and he extended the third and fourth heads 

 those parts which related to jurisprudence and political 

 economy giving more copious illustrations of the prin- 

 ciples on which these important sciences are grounded. 



* "On a traduit depuis quelque terns la ' Theorie des Sentimens 

 Moraux,' de M. Adam Smith, Professeur a Glasgow, en deux 

 volumes in 8vo. Le traducteur ou le libraire, pour lui donner un 

 titre plus piquant, 1'a nomine spirituellement ' Metaphysique de 

 1'Ame;' cet ouvrage a beaucoup de reputation en Angleterre, et n'a 

 eu aucun succes a Paris. Cela ne decide rien centre son nierite." 

 (Corr., IV., 291.) 



