LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., LIMITED NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FOUR Early in 1793 Dugald Stewart read at two meetings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh his “Account of the Life and Writings of Adam Smith.” Written with the sympathetic pen of a friend and disciple in the Corinthian style that Stewart loved, the memoir was too good to be superseded. A century passed, and in 1895 appeared Mr. John Rae’s exhaustive _Life of Adam Smith_. Mr. Rae’s comprehensive researches cropped the ground so close that little seemed to have been left for his successors to glean. But the discovery of Smith’s _Lectures on Justice, Police, Revenue, and Arms_, edited by Mr. Edwin Cannan and published…
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