By the imagination, we place ourselves in his situation, we conceive ourselves enduring all the same torments, we enter as it were into his body, and become in some measure the same person with him, and thence form some idea of his sensations, and even feel something which, though weaker in degree, is not altogether unlike them.
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Philosopher or singer, which one tells it better?
(Adam Smith is quoted from page 4 of The Theory of Moral Sentiment, by Adam Smith. George Bell and Sons, 1875.)
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