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Here's even a closer hit in Mark Akenside (1721 - 1770):
"Where senates once the WEAL OF NATIONS plann'd..."
("The Pleasures of the Imagination", date of composition unknown).
Interestingly, Akenside also mentions "some powerful hand unseen"...
However, I don't know if Smith had read Akenside's "scientific" poetry.
Yuri Tulupenko
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