THE THEORY OF MORAL SENTIMENTS; OR, AN ESSAY TOWARDS An ANALYSIS of the PRINCIPLES by which MEN naturally judge concerning the CONDUCT and CHARACTER, first of their NEIGHBOURS, and afterwards of THEMSELVES. TO WHICH IS ADDED, A DISSERTATION ON THE ORIGIN OF LANGUAGES. BY ADAM SMITH, L.L.D. F.R.S. Formerly Professor of Philosophy in the University of Glasgow; and Author of the Nature and Cause of the Wealth of Nations. THE SIXTH EDITION. DUBLIN: Printed for J. BEATTY and C. JACKSON, No. 32, SKINNER-ROW. M,DCC,LXXVII. CONTENTS. PART I. Of the Propriety of Action. SECTION I. Of the sense of propriety Page 1. CHAP. I. _Of Sympathy_ ibid. CHAP. II. _Of the Pleasure of mutual Sympathy_ 9 CHAP. III. _Of the manner in which we judge of the propriety or impropriety of the affections of other men, by their concord or dissonance with our own_ 14 CHAP. IV. _The same subject continued_ 19 CHAP. V. _Of the amiable and respectable virtues_ 27 SECTION II. Of the degrees of the different passions which are consistent with propriety 33 CHAP. I. _Of the passions which take their origin from the body_ 34 CHAP. II. _Of those passions which take their origin from a particular turn or habit of the imagination_ 41 CHAP. III. _Of the unsocial passions_ 46 CHAP. IV. _Of the social passions_ 54 CHAP. V. _Of the selfish passions_ 58 SECTION III. Of the effects of prosperity and adversity upon the judgment of mankind with regard to the propriety of action; and why it is more easy to obtain their approbation in the one state than in the other 64