Loading ...We should be apt to imagine, that, if any doctrine were thoroughly settled among mankind, it would be that respecting the production of wealth by the various classes. As circulators, men of every class have been, in all ages, employed in the pursuit of it, as the source of income, or the means of procuring not only comforts and luxuries, but even mere subsistence. Constantly and intensely employed, as they have been in acquiring it; and aware of what it will do for them, in proportion to the amount they succeed in acquiring; it seems reasonable to expect that most persons, of any reflection at all would have attained a thorough knowledge of, all this leading facts respecting it, its increase or decrease, and the causes operating in both. And what is the actual result? That in no question is there more difference of opinion: nothing seems absolutely, settled or certain. To this hour, the grand fundamental question, on which the whole science of statistics must more or less depend, whether all classes be productive or whether some be unproductive, has no been determined.
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