Note 1324 — Chapter IV · : THE ANARCHISTS
R. (Robert) Richards translation
Wealth of Nations, vol. ii, p. 207. Cf. supra, p. 79, footnote. Adam Smith, it is true, did write that “civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property,” etc.; but that does not imply that the great economist regarded this as the only object of government, although it certainly is one of its chief aims.