This is an easy doctrine to apply to other nations, as it is to apply to other people, since we can always see how professions of benevolence might be masks for self-interest.
Unfortunately for Pompey, their 39-year-old England stopper carried such benevolence into his performance and gifted the visitors the lead in the 32nd minute.
When Adam Smith pointed out that, if people want dinner, they look not to the benevolence of the butcher, brewer or baker, but to their regard for their own interest, his aim was not to portray social interaction as mean and narrow.