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truths, or of all of them, but of their demonstration plus the interlocking 

 and the interweaving of these vital truths into one great and harmonious 

 whole. Thus and thus only is it that he has presented a system of social 

 philosophy deeper and broader than that of any other economist from the 

 days of Plato and Aristotle down to our own time. By this touchstone 

 fundamental truths with their relations to each other, worked out into 

 a complete system is it that Carey is to be judged, and judged rightly 

 and justly, and n6t by mere verbal criticism, or by an attempt to prove 

 that an idea here or another one there was previously promulgated by 

 some other teacher. 



A great admirer of Frederick List, for what he had done in building up 

 Ihe German Empire a work without which Bismarck, Von Moltke, and 

 William I would never have been heard of in history Carey had but a 

 poor opinion of List's "National System of Political Economy," for the 

 very good reason that it lacked just what he had aimed to present in his 

 own books, and what are absent in Prof. Marshall's volume, broad, deep 

 and enduring fundamental principles, interlocked and interwoven into 

 one grand and harmonious whole, like Carey's own great and noble 

 "Principles of Social Science." Indeed, no such voluminous writer on 

 social subjects as Carey has ever lived and written who has paid so little 

 heed to the writings of other economists. His own economic and statisti- 

 cal library, now in the Library of the University of Pennsylvania, will 

 bear me out in this statement. Colwell collected the writings of political 

 economists ; Carey collected those of travelers, historians, statisticians and 

 scientists ; and to these he went for the material out of which to demon- 

 strate those great principles which will ever bear his honored name. 



How far Carey has been successful in impressing his philosophy upon 

 the people of the United States, and upon the national policy, is well de- 

 picted by a recent and far from friendly critic as follows: "Measured by 

 results," says Prof. Levermore, "the Carey school, and not its opponent, 

 has achieved success in the United States. For thirty years, the stone 

 which the builders rejected has been the head of the corner. Carey and 

 his friends never captured our colleges; but, for a generation, they had 

 dominated five-sevenths of the newspaper offices, a pulpit far more 

 influential than the professorial chair. The arguments to which Carey 

 gave form and eloquence are in the mouths of more than half the business 

 men and farmers of our country; and, in the last Presidential campaign, 

 the Republican party reaffirmed the extremest principles of the Carey 

 school, including even the rancor towards England, with a violence and 

 absoluteness that would probably have surprised Carey himself " ("Po- 

 litical Science Quarterly," Dec., 1890, pp. 572, 5T3). 



The reason for this is not far to seek. Carey dealt in broad and endur- 

 ing principles so interlocked and intertwined that any man of ordinary 

 intellect, once captured by them, might ever after during his life bid 

 adieu to the hope of freedom from their intellectual domination. 



Nihil est veritatis luce dulcius. Indeed, nothing is sweeter, nothing 



