...the logical and the empirical in a transcriticai manner. 11. "I shall in another discourse endeavor to give an account of the general principles of law...have undergone in the different ages and periods of society, not only in what concerns justice but in what concerns police, revenue and arms, and whatever...

...in another discourse," Adam Smith reported in the final paragraph of The Theory of Moral Sentiments, "endeavour to give an account of the general principles...have undergone in the different ages and periods of society" (TMS, VII.iv.37). Smith's announcement of this future volume on the general principles of...

...Nations also fits this description is reasonably clear; Smith himself says that this work is part of "an account of the general principles of law and government, and of the different revolutions which they [have] undergone in the different ages and periods of society" (TMS, 3). Most of Books III...

...conditions of his time. In his " Theory of Moral Sentiments " he promises to give in another discourse " an account of the general " principles of law and...have undergone in the different ages and periods of society, " not only in what concerns justice, but in what concerns police, " revenue, and arms, and...

...last paragraph of the first Edition of the present work, I said, that I should in another discourse endeavour to give an account of the general principles...law and government, and of the different revolutions which they had undergone in the different ages and periods of society; not only in what concerns justice,...

...of the lectures can have been of much intrinsic merit it is not easy now to believe-. An historical account " of the general principles of law and government, and of the different revolutions which they have undergone in the different ages and periods of society," would be too great a task...