 | Robin Paul Malloy, Jerry Evensky - Business & Economics - 1994 - 250 pages
...232). 30. The man whose public spirit is prompted altogether by humanity and benevolence... [w]hen he cannot establish the right, he will not disdain...laws, he will endeavour to establish the best that people can bear.' (TMS, 233). 31. Smith had little trust in the 'man of system'. (TMS, 233). 32. See... | |
 | Willem Melching, Wyger Velema - History - 1994 - 288 pages
...parents.86 When the man whose public spirit is prompted by humanity "cannot establish the right," he argued, "he will not disdain to ameliorate the wrong; but...endeavour to establish the best that the people can bear."87 In contrast, Smith charged, dogmatic reformers hold "in contempt the divine maxim of Plato"... | |
 | Vivienne Brown - Economists - 1994 - 258 pages
...visions of an ideal political system and so will readily settle for second-best political solutions; 'like Solon, when he cannot establish the best system...endeavour to establish the best that the people can bear' (TMS VI.ii.2.16). Although the text of TMS is drawing on the classical discourse of legislators/statesmen,... | |
 | Jerry Z. Muller - Business & Economics - 1995 - 292 pages
...as he can, his public arrangements to the confirmed habits and prejudices of the people. . . . When he cannot establish the right, he will not disdain...endeavour to establish the best that the people can bear. 30 Smith's policy recommendations reflect his awareness of the need to accommodate existing interests... | |
 | Donald Winch - History - 1996 - 452 pages
...regulations which the people are averse to submit to. When he cannot establish the best system of laws, he will not disdain to ameliorate the wrong; but like...system of laws, he will endeavour to establish the best the people can bear. 14 It will be clear from this that Smith is not assuming contemplative passivity,... | |
 | Christina Petsoulas - Hayek - 2001 - 220 pages
...well as he can, his public arrangements to the confirmed habits and prejudices of the people ... When he cannot establish the right, he will not disdain...endeavour to establish the best that the people can bear'. The end of every government, Smith maintains, is to promote the happiness of its people.17 It can achieve... | |
 | P. J. Cain, Mark Harrison - Political Science - 2001 - 384 pages
...when he cannot establish the best system. will try to establish the best the people can bear. and when he cannot establish the right. he will not disdain to ameliorate the wrong." We must in the life of nations allow time for growth and time for decay. and in the life of nations... | |
 | Adam Smith - Business & Economics - 2004 - 260 pages
...inconveniencies which may flow from the want of those regulations which the people are averse to submit to. When he cannot establish the right, he will not disdain...endeavour to establish the best that the people can bear. The man of system, on the contrary, is apt to be very wise in his own conceit; and is often so enamoured... | |
 | Jerry Evensky - Business & Economics - 2005 - 364 pages
...can, his public arrangements to the confirmed habits and prejudices of the people; and will... [w]hen he cannot establish the right, he will not disdain...endeavour to establish the best that the people can bear. (TMS, 233) 33 Solon is an ideal civic humanist model for Smith because, as Smith represents him, Solon's... | |
 | Knud Haakonssen - Business & Economics - 2006 - 442 pages
..."inconveniencies" which may flow from the want of those regulations which the people are averse to submit to. When he cannot establish the right, he will not disdain...endeavour to establish the best that the people can bear. (TMS, VI. ii. 2.i 6) If "public spirit" is not a spirit of "system," Smith is equally clear that it... | |
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When he cannot establish the right, he will not disdain to ameliorate the wrong; but like Solon, when he cannot establish the best system of laws, he will endeavour to establish the best that the people can bear. 
