Excerpt from An Inquiry Into the Principles of Political Oeconomy, Vol. 1 of 2: Being an Essay on the Science of Domestic Policy in Free Nations, in Which Are Particularly Considered Population, Agriculture, Trade, Industry, Money, Coin, Interest, Circulation, Banks, Exchange, Public Credit, and Taxes
Is it not of the greatef't importance to examine, with candour, the Operations by which all Europe has been engaged in a fyflem of: policy fo generally declaimed againf't, and fo contrary to that which we hear daily recommended as the boil? And to ihew, from the plain principles of common fenfe, that our prefent fituation is the unavoidable confequence of the fpirit and manners of the 'prefent times, and that it is quite compatible With all the liberty, affluence, and' profperity, which any human fociety ever enjoyed in any age, or under any form of government? A people taught to expect from a fiatefman the execution of plans, big with impoflibility and contradiction, will remain difeontente'd under the government of the bell of Kings.
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