The link between the religious belief in individual agency and a resultant economic success is what energizes most american protestants to day. The movement away from predestinarian calvinism in the english speaking protestant world was a kind of rolling debate. And as a result, smith and hume just heard this debate all around them, even though they weren't religious figures. As a result, their world view took on this idea of a more benign a view of the human character.

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