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Excerpt from View of the Progress of Political Economy in Europe Since the Sixteenth Century The regulations of the professorship of Political Economy impose upon the professor the duty of publishing some portion of the lectures delivered in each year, and as the nature of the present course would hardly allow me to select a separate portion for publication without risking an appearance of inexcusable incompleteness in the treatment of the subject, I have ventured to publish an entire course, being at the same time the last, which I am permitted by the tenure of my office to submit to the attention of those who feel an interest in the science. My object on the present occasion has been to exhibit Political Economy teaching its most important truths by example, and so to show, that its leading doctrines are the conclusions of an enlarged experience, and are not, as many persons suppose, mere deductions from arbitrary premises skilfully assumed. The course of such an inquiry has unavoidably led to the discussion of many popular principles, which have been from time to time arrayed against those conclusions, and of which the fallacy has been repeatedly demonstrated by some disastrous experiment. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.