He had originally intended to enter the church, but gave up a career in the clergy when he left Oxford,  instead becoming a professor of logic and moral philosophy at the University of Glasgow.
In 1764, he left his professorship to accompany the duke of Buccleuch (book-CLUE-uch) to France, where he met Helvetius, D'Alembert, and Turgot. He had originally intended to enter the church, but gave up a career in the clergy when he left Oxford,  instead becoming a professor of logic and moral philosophy at the University of Glasgow. FTP, name this author of the Theory of Moral Sentiments, who spent ten years in retirement at Kirkcaldy before the publication, in 1776, of his Inquiry into the Natu  re and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
In 1764, he left his professorship to accompany the duke of Buccleuch (book-CLUE-uch) to France, where he met Helvetius, D'Alembert, and Turgot.
Adam Smith