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Excerpt from Wealth-Creation

Our author belongs to a class of writers, which, um happily, is not a numerous one, composed of men ac tively engaged in the affairs of life and thereby made daily familiar with the practical sides of exchange, barter, and monetary transactions, and yet capable of reasoning correctly on the subject matters of their occupations. Paradoxical as the remark may seem, it is nevertheless true that familiarity on a small scale with the phenomena of mercantile life is more likely to vitiate correct reason ing than to aid it. Ricardo was an example to the con trary, but between him and Mongredien, excepting N ew march, there is scarcely a great political economist of England belonging to the purely commercial class. Business men are prone to take too circumscribed an horizon to be led to universally true rules, and make therefore unsafe guides in the domains of politico-eco nomic science and statesmanship.

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In the preface to a pamphlet entitled "Pleas for Protection Examined," which I published in February of this year, I stated that it formed a part of, and would be re-incorporated in, a larger work on which I was then engaged. Accordingly, it will be found that the greatest portion of that pamphlet is introduced into the present work, of which it occupies 47 pages, viz., p. 169 to 216.

I also desire to point out that, while, in the chapter on Land at p. 251 of this work, I set forth certain contingent difficulties that may arise out of the limited supply of land and the unlimited growth of population, I have carefully abstained from discussing the remedial measures which may, at some time or other, have to be adopted. I, therefore, disclaim all inferences tending to identify me with any of the theories or schemes that have been, or may be, broached with a view to solve the difficulties in question.

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.