March 30, 2022
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Adam Ferguson’s approval of Adam Smith's work was not unconditional.
Ferguson once wrote to Smith: ‘You have provoked, it is true, the church, the universities, and the merchants, against all of whom I am willing to take your part; but you have likewise provoked the militia, and there I must be against you.’"