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SMITH’S OBSERVATION “The man of system, on the contrary, is apt to be very wise in his own conceit; and is often so enamored with the supposed beauty of his own ideal plan of government, that he cannot suffer the smallest deviation from any part of it. He goes on to establish it completely and in all its parts, without any regard either to the great interests, or to the strong prejudices which may oppose it. He seems to imagine that he can arrange the different members of a great society with as much ease as the hand arranges the different pieces upon a chess–board. He does not consider that the pieces upon the chess–board have no other principle of motion besides that which the hand impresses upon them; but that, in the great chess–board of human society, every single piece has a principle of motion of its own, altogether different from that which the legislature might choose to impress upon it. If those two principles coincide and act in the same direction, the game of human society will go on easily and harmoniously, and is very likely to be happy and successful. If they are opposite or different, the game will go on miserably, and the society must be at all times in the highest degree of disorder.” — The Theory of Moral Sentiments (Part VI) 22
MORAL ADVANTAGES (2) ➡ The “man of system” in the made order sees those he is commanding as “chess pieces” ➡ In a spontaneous order the fact that the “chess pieces” can think for themselves — and should be entitled to do so — is what creates the order in the first place ➡ Spontaneous orders display the equal authority of the people participating in them in a way made orders do not ➡ In this sense they are societies organized by civility rather than by authority 23
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Page 5 and 6: EQUALITY OF AUTHORITY ๏A monarch
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Page 9 and 10: WHAT IS “SPONTANEOUS ORDER”?
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Page 19 and 20: MORAL ADVANTAGES (1) ๏ Made order
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Page 25 and 26: CIVIL SOCIETY ๏ What do I mean by
Page 27 and 28: IMAGES OF CIVIL SOCIETIES ๏ Rober
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