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of creating these exaggerated fears, and of passing 

 these acts, has been unquestionably furnished by 

 the extravagant expectations of the people. And 

 it must be allowed that the present times furnish 

 a very striking illustration of the doctrine, that an 

 ignorance of the principal cause of poverty is 

 peculiarly unfavourable, and that a knowledge of 

 it must be peculiarly favourable, to the cause of 

 civil liberty. 



