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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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