Adam Smith: Let us suppose that the great empire of China was suddenly swallowed up by an earthquake, and let us consider how a  man of humanity in Europe would react on receiving intelligence of this dreadful calamity.
Adam Smith: Pretpostavimo da veliko carstvo Kine odjednom proguta potres, i razmislimo kako čovjek iz Europe reagira na primanje informacija o ovoj strašnoj nesreći.