… called commercial sociability; that is, a secondary form of sociability stemming from interactions based on dynamics of sympathy and self-love . 10 Smith’s alternative to natural sociability was not incompatible with his sustained interest … at odds with Smith’s effort to derive the moral sentiments from the social – and more thoroughly secular – dynamics of sympathy. As the clergyman and professor of rhetoric and belles-lettres Hugh Blair remarked in one of his sermons, …