But also: "The man of the most perfect virtue, the man whom we naturally love and revere the most, is he who joins, to the most perfect command of his own orig

But also: "The man of the most perfect virtue, the man whom we naturally love and revere the most, is he who joins, to the most perfect command of his own original and selfish feelings, the most exquisite sensibility both to the original and sympathetic feelings of others." Self-interest, yes, but in a system regulated just as much by the church and the aristocracy as by the flow of capital. Pure monetary greed without regard for doing what is right is nothing Smith would ever have advocated.