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… is from page 307 of Jacob Viner [2]‘s March 1949 American Economic Review paper, “Bentham and J. S. Mill: The Utilitarian Background [3],” as this paper is reprinted in the 1958 collection of selected articles by Viner titled The Long View and the Short [4]:
The one social issue on which on which Adam Smith was a zealot was the issue of freedom of trade versus mercantilism.