I comment on a paper by Prof David Andrews, 'Adam Smith's Natural Prices, the Gravitation Metaphor, and the Purposes of … Nature', 2014, published in Economic Thought, 3.1, pp. 42-55, which takes a philosophical view of Adam Smith's use of the … Smith simply used a metaphoric 'figure of speech' that followed his teachings (1748-64) on Rhetoric, as in his 'Lectures on …