Mason Gaffney wrote:
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Smith's statement is so insensitive to the straits of the poor, and so blind
to the extravagances of the rich, that I am tempted to wonder if the
publisher, Regnery, didn't tamper with it. Maybe some Smith scholar will
check earlier editions lacking the tendentious title of "The Conservative
Leadership Series".
>


The quoted passages are the same in the Glasgow edition of TMS.

Rather than blind to the extravagances of the rich, I read the quoted part as particularly critical. "their natural selfishness and rapacity," "conveniency," and "gratification of their own vain and insatiable desires" isn't exactly a pat on the head.
   
Sam Bostaph