1. After Adam Smith: prologue; Part I. Adam Smith's Science of the Legislator: 2. An excessive solicitude for posthumous reputation; 3. The secret concatenation; 4. The wisdom of Solomon; Part II. Adam Smith, Edmund Burke, and Factious Citizens: 5. Contested affinities; 6. The loss of regal government; 7. Burke's creed: politics, chivalry, and superstition; 8. The labouring poor; Part III. Robert Malthus as Political Moralist: 9. Imminence and immediacy: initial bearings; 10. New and extraordinary lights; 11. Rather a matter of feeling than argument; 12. A manufacturing animal: things not persons?; 13. The bountiful gift of providence; 14. Last things and other legacies; Part IV: 15. Epilogue.

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