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Genre:
"Prose"
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Nationality of Author:
"Scottish"
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Work title:
"The Theory of Moral Sentiments [2nd ed.]"
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Literary Period:
"Age of Sensibility"
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"Early Modern"
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"Industrial Revolution"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Metaphor Category:
"Fire"
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Date: 1761
"It is not the soft power of humanity, it is not that feeble spark of benevolence which Nature has lighted up in the human heart, that is thus capable of counteracting the strongest impluses of self-love."
preview | full record— Smith, Adam (1723-1790)