His work on moral sentiments sought to explain social bonds outside the economic sphere.

Was it the embodiment of the moral sentiment of the people?

Smith defined "mutual sympathy" as the basis of moral sentiments.

If thought makes free, so does the moral sentiment.

Whoever has had experience of the moral sentiment cannot choose but believe in unlimited power.

With equal force, though by different methods, both touch the heart, and arouse the moral sentiment.

"Sympathy" was the term Smith used for the feeling of these moral sentiments.

"I've argued that many of what philosophers call moral sentiments can be seen in other species," he said.

Before all men, he saw the intellectual values of the moral sentiment.

Nevertheless, the basic legislative scheme and moral sentiment remained the same.