W R I T I N G S OF DR. S M I T H.

IX

In 175 i, he was defied Profeffor of Logic in theUniverhty ofGlafgow; and, the year following,he was removed to the Profelforiliip of Moral Phi-lofophyin the fame Univerhty, upon the deathof Mr. Thomas Craigie, the immediate fuc-ceflor of Dr. Hutcheson. In this htnation, heremained thirteen years; a period he ufed fre-quently to look back to, as the mod ufeful andhappy of his life. It was indeed a htnation in whichhe was eminently htted to excel, and in whichthe daily labors of his profession were conftantlyrecalling his attention to his favorite pursuits, andfamiliarizing his mind to thole important specula-tions he was afterwards to communicate to theworld. In this view, though it afforded, in themean time, but a very narrow scene for his am-bition , it was probably inftrumental, in no in-considerable degree, to the future eminence of hisliterary character.

Of Mr. Smith’s ledures while a Professor atGlasgow, no part has been preserved, exceptingwhat he himself publillied in the Theory of MoralSentiments and in the Wealth of Nations. TheSociety therefore, I am persuaded, will liflenwith pleasure to the following short account ofthem, for which I am indebted to a gentlemanwho was formerly one of Mr. Smith’s pupils andwho continued till his death to be one of his mossintimate and valued friends.