# Adam Smith

Author: Hirst, Francis W. (Francis Wrigley), 1873-1953

Genre: Category: Biographies

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/64753

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Adam+Smith+Hirst&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Adam Smith was born on June 5, 1723, in the “lang toun” of Kirkcaldy. It was one of the “mony royal boroughs yoked on end to end like ropes of ingans, with their hie-streets and their booths, and their kraemes and houses of stane and lime and forestairs,” which led Andrew Fairservice to contrast “the kingdom of Fife” with the inferior county of Northumberland; nay, it furnished him with a special boast, “Kirkcaldy, the sell o’t, is langer than ony toun in England.” It had been a royal borough from the time of Charles I., and had declined, like many other Scotch towns, in the religious wars of the seventeenth century. Many of its citizens who had fought for the Covenant had fallen on the f...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/adam-smith-64753/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/adam-smith-64753/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/adam-smith-64753/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/adam-smith-64753/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/adam-smith-64753/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/adam-smith-64753/chapters/2/index.md)
- [chapter ix. of Book IV. on the French economists and their agricultural](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/adam-smith-64753/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/adam-smith-64753/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/adam-smith-64753/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/adam-smith-64753/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/adam-smith-64753/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/adam-smith-64753/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Book IV., on Rates of Interest. “Adam Smith, after having read the](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/adam-smith-64753/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/adam-smith-64753/chapters/1/index.md)