Twenty years after Adam Smith’s death, Archbishop Magee, in a controversy with Unitarian theologians, cited a passage from the _Moral Sentiments_ on the doctrine of atonement, in which Smith had said that the doctrines of revelation coincide in every respect with the original anticipations of nature. “Such,” wrote the divine, “are the reflections of a man whose powers of thinking and reasoning will surely not be pronounced inferior to those of any even of the most distinguished champions of the Unitarian school.” The rejoinder was at once made that in the sixth edition, which Smith prepared for the press in 1790, the passage was omitted; whereupon the prelate (forgetting that Hume died in 1776, after four editions had appeared with this presentation of the reasonableness of an atonement) deftly turned a new moral: “It adds one proof more to the many that already existed of the danger, even to the most enlightened, from a familiar contact with infidelity.” CHAPTER IV _THE THEORY OF MORAL SENTIMENTS_ In 1759, the seventh year of his professorship, Smith completed the first of his two capital achievements. His scholiasts are still curiously hazy about its early editions, partly perhaps because neither the first, second, nor third is to be found in the library of the British Museum. The first edition is a single octavo volume of 551 pages, printed in good large type.[10] The title-page runs as follows:— THE THEORY OF MORAL SENTIMENTS by Adam Smith Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of Glasgow. London: Printed for A. Millar, in the Strand and A. Kincaid and J. Bell in Edinburgh. MDCCLIX. Andrew Millar was then at the head of the London publishers. He had shown some time before, when Hume’s _History_ fell into his hands, that he knew how to push a good book, and on this occasion too the firm lived up to its reputation.