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scarce tracts on commerce and political economy, in 
which these authors, and Sir W. Petit’s tracts should be 
Included* There is also a very good paper in the stile of 
the day, by Addison, supposed to be written for the Specta- 
tor, by Sir Andrew Freeport, the merchant of his club 3 
The essays of Hume, and Sir James Steuart, next suc- 
ceeded in England ; essays of sterling merit on difficult 
questions of political economy* 
In the mean time, Dr* Quesnay, in France, first propa-, 
gated the doctrine that agriculture and agricultural labour, 
was the sole productive labour, and the only source of re* 
venue : that every other species of labour was employed 
not in creating produce, like agriculture, but in changing 
the form of that which agriculture had produced* Ques- 
nay was the founder of a new Sect, the Economistes , who 
may claim as associates, the two Mirabeaus, father and 
son, Turgot, Condorcet, La Riviere, and many others; 
and in part, the later economistes in that language, de Ca- 
saux, Herrenschwand, Gamier, Canard, &c** 
At length arose Adam Smith, who in his u Wealth of 
jiations,” developed the principles of the economistes, and 
fortified their general positions with facts and arguments, 
so clear, so strong, so luminously urged, and so well 
systematized, that from the time of its publication to the 
present day, it has been, and will in the future, as I think 
continue to be, the book on the subject of political econo- 
* Mirabeau P aine. Ami des hommes, 
Mirabeau le jeune. Various passages in his Monarch ie Prussienne. 
Turgot, Condorceto See CondorcePs Life of Turgot. 
Mercier de la Riviere* Ordre naturel des Societes politiques. 
De Casaux. Sur le mechanisms des societes* &e. 
Herrenschwand. Discours fondamental sur la population. G&nilh Las 
cited this work. 
Discours sur le Commerce exterieup* 
la division des Torres. 
Canard and Gamier are frequently noticed by Ganilh j th® authors ahov© 
mentioned* are mi noticed by him m far as \ observe. 
