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Times Online.UK:

Okay, one.  After more than 200 years, science admits it: Adam Smith was right.  “Smith saw sympathy (compassion and commiseration for another person, even if you don’t share his troubles), or empathy (if you do), as an innate characteristic of man. It served, Smith suggested, as man’s moral compass, was difficult to overcome, and from it flourished an unwritten code of ethics that held society together.”

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