… abolitionist ( A Poem on the Bill Lately Passed for Regulating the Slave Trade , 1788) and pacifist, Williams expressed sympathy in her works for the American Revolution ( An American Tale , 1786) and, after learning about the absolutist …
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… it were, by contagion, through the whole club or knot of companions.’ 4 To Hume, this process was tightly connected to sympathy, as explained in ‘A Treatise’, 5 a notion also central to Smith’s and Shaftesbury’s philosophical thoughts. …
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