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