The reader, who honours the following sheets, with an attentive perusal, may probably find, that though we have advanced, by wide steps, during « the last century, in the science of politics, we have still much to learn ; and that the summit can only be gained, by substituting accurate research, for delusive speculation,...
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PREFACE. The present work was written last March, in competition for the Pears prize of one hundred guineas for the best essay on the present depression of trade. It did not obtain the prize, and it is therefore now submitted to the judgment of the public — and more especially of the working classes,...
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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...
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PREFACE BY THE AUTHOR WITH the present collection the publication of Sumner’s Essays comes to an end. The original project of publishers and editor contemplated but a single volume — ” War and Other Essays ” — and they accordingly equipped that volume with a bibliography which was as complete as they then could, make...
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FOREWORD THIS book is written in the form of a conversation between Uncle Sam and six men of various occupations. It begins with the A, B, C of the subject and by question and answer goes over all the different phases of the subject precisely as you would expect them to arise under such circumstances....
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PREVIEW It is an essential part of the case of the silver men that the country is having “hard times.” The bolters from the Republican convention say, in their manifesto: “Discontent and distress prevail to an extent never before known in the history of the country.” This is an historical assertion. It is distinctly untrue....
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