smith phoned and bought, he met voltaire and talked with voltaire and once started to criticize full fare and said there is only one full share and he bought a magnificent bust of him. what a that reminds me is this is smith on full fare. nil and 5 clerical. it is very interesting that in this classic confrontation between unlike meant and religion, the classic implications, all of that, that does not appear on the pages of smith at all. david hume's anti clericalism, religious skepticism is constantly resurfacing in his writing. smith never is. one of the interesting things to ask is why when he has adopted a philosophy which is -- which in fact argues for the irrelevance, philosophical irrelevance of theology, when there is free little doubt that he was alarmed by the consequences of clericalism of david hume, voltaire or anyone why he does not allow it to intrude into the center of his philosophy which he doesn't. >> i think he does. in the following way. he does mention will fare. the answer to your first question is he does discuss the connection to the french enlightenment. the

regimes others that comparing you see a destructive tsunami that would wreak havoc in a radiate voltaire's region well to add some perspective from that may i'm now joined by a former adviser to president george w. bush thomas graham thank you very much for your time sir what do you think is an aftermath of for for the events unfolding in the middle east right now i think in that metaphor is probably an earthquake that is going to change the ground underneath a ravine that had been in place for the past forty years no more of what we're seeing is the consequence of. a lot of developments in communications the consequence of population growth. the desire by people from the organize their lives in somewhat different fashion bad as we can see from the events in japan it may take a long time to recover from a twenty year earthquake how long do you think it's going to take before live it will get that you know well you have to remember that this is the tension in this region that's been growing for for many many years i said reasonably assume that you're going to see this change occur overnight

go, lake voltaire. he did not regard correspondence as communication, which is national to assist ordinary conversation is our god help us, e-mail is now. smith wrote letters when there was business to be done and he wrote letters when they would go up by its fans. and they were good enough. but they are not the kind of correspondence we associate with the enlightenment. and then if you turn to the institutions with which smith was connect it during his life, with glasgow university from 1752 to 1753, the university of which he said the happiest and most fruitful years of his life. i am not the only historian who is ransacked the record of glasgow university to track down the records of their greatest professor and in fact a professor who played an extremely at this part and a very responsible part in the management university business. to get the institutional record are pretty negative. in the same is true if we turn to the end of smith's life. in 1788 he was appointed pastimes in edinburgh. he cares