Tao Te Ching

“Smith's work marks the breakthrough of an evolutionary approach which has progressively displaced the stationary Aristotelian view. The nineteenth-century enthusiast who claimed that the Wealth of Nations was in importance second only to the Bible has often been ridiculed; but he may not have exaggerated so much.”

— Friedrich Hayek 1899 – 1992 CE
from The Fatal Conceit (1988)