Excerpt from Economics for Beginners
So Whately says, It were well if the ambiguities of this word had done no more than puzzle philosophers. It has for' centuries done more, and perhaps for centuries to come will do more, to retard the progress of Europe than all other causes put together.' T hese extracts, which are nothing but the literal truth, show the gravity and the importance of the inquiry.
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