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rious effects are well understood, some judgment may be 

 formed of the measures which governments have adopted to 

 contribute to the vvelfare of their people ; whether certain 

 branches of commerce should be encouraged in preference 

 to others ; whether it be proper to prohibit this or that kind 

 of merchandise ; whether any peculiar encouragement should 

 be given to agriculture ; whether it be right to establish by 

 law the price of provisions or the price of labour, or whether 

 they should be left without control ; and whether many other 

 measures, which influence the welfare of nations, should be 

 adopted or rejected. 



It is manifest, therefore, that political economy consists, 

 of two parts — theory and practice ; the science and the art. 

 The science comprehends a knowledge of the facts which 

 have been enumerated ; the art relates more particularly to 

 legislation, and consists in doing whatever is requisite to con- 

 tribute to the increase of national wealth, and avoiding what- 

 ever would be prejudicial to it. Mrs. Bryan. 



Questions. — 1. What is political economy ? 2, What is the state 

 of savage life ? 3. What is the consequence of attending to pasturage ? 

 4. What is the effect of discovering the art of tillage ? 5. What in? 

 troduces property ? 6. What is the origin of social order ? 7. What 

 follows after the laws assume the regular form of a government? 8. 

 On what is the science of political economy founded ? 9. How may 

 some judgment he formed of the measures of governments ? 10. What 

 does the science of political economy comprehend ? 11. The art ? 



ILESSGN 105, 



Property. 



When we consider the multitude who are in possession of 

 means of enjoyment, that are to them the means only of selfish 

 avarice or of profligate waste, and when, at the same time, we 

 consider the multitudes, far more numerous, to whom a small 

 share of that cumbrous and seemingly unprofitable wealth, 

 would in an instant diffuse a comfort, that would make the 

 heart of the indigent gay in his miserable hovel, and be like 

 a dream of health itself to that pale cheek, which is slowly 

 wasting on its wretched bed of straw, in cold and darkness, 

 —-it might almost seem to th^ inconsiderate, at least for a 



