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Index
Explanatory Note
Smiths and Douglases from Adam Smith's family appearing in this index are identified
by their relationship to him. He is referred to throughout as AS, and his good friend
David Hume appears as DH. AS's works are mentioned without naming the author, and
are cited by the acronyms and short titles listed in References and Abbreviations in the
preliminaries.The entry for AS is long and subdivided thus: (1) childhood and family background,
(2) early socioeconomic context, (3) health, (4) education, (5) religion, (6) relations with
women, (7) friendships, principal, (8) as rhetorician, (9) as critic, (10) as theorist and sys-
tem-builder, (11) as historian, (12) as jurist, (13) as moral philosopher, (14) as political
economist, (15) as political theorist, (16) as instructor of youth, (17) students, (18) as uni-
versity administrator, (19) as Commissioner of Customs, (20) finances, (21) journeys and
travels, (22) anecdotes, (23) physical appearance, (24) estimates of (a) himself, (b) others,
(25) degrees, honours, and soubriquets, (26) sayings and maxims, (27) works, in general,
(28) short pieces, (29) TMS, (30) WN, (31) EPS, (32) projected works, (33) missing
works, (34) doubtful work, (35) policy documents, (36) students' reports, (37) will.Anonymous publications are listed alphabetically by short title, and other books are
indexed by author. Dates of first editions are given where known. Entries from notes cite
page, note number/chapter number.
Abbot, John, Fellow of Balliol, 71
Abercromby, George, Prof. of Public Law at
Edinburgh, 151
Aberdeen: AS's property in, 87 ; grammar school
curriculum, 20 ; universities, 3, 29, 39
Adam: father William ( architect), 10, 13, 26 -7, 82, 84, 147 ; sons (architects), Robert, 1, 22, 27 -8, 84, 189,
228, 253, 265, 302, 315, James, 228, 421 n. 4/2,
John, 232 ; son, William (London merchant), 262,
264 -5
Adam, William, MP, 264, 265, 360
Adams, John, and President of USA, 267 -8
Adams, John Quincy, 6th President of USA, 390
Adams, Samuel, Clerk to the Massachusetts House of
Representatives, 268
Addington, Henry, MP (later Prime Minister), 376
Addison, Joseph, and Steele, Sir Richard, 16, 50, 86,
430 n. 1/17; Spectator, 15, and TMS, 165
Aldrych, Henry: Artes Logicae Compendium ( 1691), 74
d'Alembert, Jean le Rond, 1, 250, 289, 363
Alison, Archibald, the elder, Lord Provost of
Edinburgh, 127
America, 252, 255, 258, 261 -2, 267, 293 -6, 325 ; and
free market theory, xxiv, 250, 281 ; constitution,
xxvii; AS on, 248, 327, concept of an Atlantic
union, 268 -9, 281
Amerindians: song of death, 169
Anacreon (poet), 96
Anderson, Adam: Origin of Commerce ( 1764), 227
Anderson, James (agricultural improver), 348, 371,
431 n. ½0
Anderson, John, Prof. of Natural Philosophy at
Glasgow, 109, 148 ; records early LJ, 121 -2
Andrews, Gerard, Fellow of Balliol, 71
Angier, Mr (language teacher at Glasgow Univ.), 372
Anker, Peter and Karsten, 202, 345
Annual Register, 357 ; Burke's review of TMS ( 1759),
181
Anson, Capt. George, RN, 224
Apollonius of Perga (c. 250 BC, geometer), 45
Argathelians (supporters of Argyll leadership), 36, 37
d'Argenson, Marquis: Considérations sur le gouverne-
ment de la France ( 1764), 387
Argyll, John Campbell, and Duke of, 4, 5, 36, 82, 210
Argyll, 3rd Duke of, see under Ilay, Archibald
Campbell
Aristotle: De anima, 43, 73 -4; Poetics, 86 ; AS
contrasts his method with Newton's, 93 ; First
Cause, 102 ; AS's edition of works, 119 ;
Metaphysics, 172 ; Politics, 392
Army, 83, 141 -2
Arnauld, Antoine, and Lancelot, Claude: Grammaire
générale et raisonnée ( 1703), 15 ; ----- and Nicole,
Pierre, Art of Thinking ( 1662), 42
Arniston House, Lothian, 27
Arnot, Archibald (surgeon, AS's guardian), 12, 17
Arthur, Archibald, Prof. of Moral Philosophy at
Glasgow, 96 -7, 131, 357
d'Artois, Charles Philippe, comte (later Charles X),
388
Atterbury, Francis, Bishop of Rochester, 67
Ayr Bank, 242 -3
Bach, Johann Sebastian ( composer), 1
Bacon, Mathew: New Abridgment of the [English] Law
( 1739-59, 1766), 147

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