Adam Smith

book could doubt that Smith knew Quesnai as well as Quesnai’s _Table_,

which had been published in 1758 and was regarded with an almost superstitious veneration by the whole sect. If the doubt existed, it would be dispelled by a curious piece of evidence. Of the half-dozen letters he wrote from France that have been preserved, the longest, dated Compiègne, August 26, 1766, is to Cha...