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terns have hitherto failed from ignorance or 

 the erroneous application of general principles, 

 by which principles, themfelves pretend to be , 

 invariably guided, how and why, in the parti- 

 cular cafe in queftion, they have contrived to 

 fubflitute an arbitrary difcretion? And by what 

 poflible means, they can bring that difcretion 

 to coincide with practical utility ? There are, 

 we well know, in the courfe of human affairs, 

 extreme cafes, wherein principles are naturally 

 fubjecled to the controul of human difcretion; 

 but thofe, none but idiots miftake, and none 

 but knaves and madmen ever dream of bringing 

 into common ufe, or of reducing them to the 

 fhape of permanent reftriclion. 



I think it may eafily be proved a folecifm, 

 to ftyle any thing monopoly, which is not fup- 

 ported by arbitrary prohibition, for inftance 

 governmental; in other words, where all may 

 freely buy, who have money or credit, there 

 can be no illegitimate or improper advantage. 

 You fay, this man (hall not make whatever ufe 

 it fhall pleafe him, of his fuperior capital. — 

 You fay, then, whether you know it or not, 

 this man Jk all not have a fuperior capital. I 

 defy you to divide the principle, and alfo to 

 bring any effectual fchemes of regulation into 

 practice, without going the whole length of an 

 Agrarian law. Are you prepared for that? 

 Are you a merchant or tradefman? You fhall 

 trade only to a certain extent, that, you may 



not 



