Most Adam Smith scholars hold that endorsed public provision of education to offset deleterious consequences arising from the division labor. Smith’s putative endorsement publicly funded is taken by some as evidence he tends more toward progressive than classical liberalism, or this a departure from, perhaps an inconsistency with, otherwise strong presumption against government intervention in ...

“We need not be surprised … that the Cartesian philosophy …, though it does perhaps contain a word of truth, should nevertheless have been so universally received by all Learned in Europe at time. [They] greedily receive[d] work which we justly esteem one most entertaining Romances has ever wrote.” LRBL ii.134