2iI4 ADAM SMITH. 



the arguments, the manly sense of the remarks, the 

 fulness and force of the illustrations, the thickly strewed 

 and happily selected facts. Nor can it ever escape 

 observation, that the facts, far from being a mere bede- 

 roll of details unconnected with principle and with 

 each other, derive all their interest from forming parts 

 of a whole, and reflecting the general views which they 

 are intended to exemplify or to support. 



This admirable work has received the aid of several 

 learned and able commentators, of whom Professor 

 Macculloch is, beyond all question, the first in this 

 country, and M. de Gamier abroad. The edition of 

 the former is a book of great value, and like his excel- 

 lent treatise on Political Economy in the 'Encyclo- 

 paedia Britannica,' ought to be in the hands of every 

 one who would study this science with success.* 



APPENDIX. 



I. ECONOMISTS AND DE. SMITH. 



THE two leading opinions which divide political inquirers 

 upon the sources of national wealth, are those of the Econo- 

 mists and of Dr. Smith. We purpose here to exhibit a 

 concise view of the objections to which both of these doc- 

 trines are eminently liable. As the general principle of a 

 distinction between productive and unproductive labour is 

 recognized by Dr. Smith, as we conceive his theory to be 

 extremely inconsistent with itself, and consider it to be an 

 imperfect approximation to that of the Economists, we shall 

 begin with a short examination of the principle on which it 

 depends. That eminent writer divides labourers into two 

 classes: those who, by adding to the value of some raw 

 material, or by assisting in the increase of their quantity, 

 realize or fix in a vendible commodity the effects of their 



* The editions of Dr. Smith's works referred to in this Life are, ' Moral 

 Sentiments,' London, 1792, and 'Wealth of Nations,' London, 18U2; 

 being the seventh of the former, and the tenth of the latter. 



