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The Method I Take To Do This Is Not Yet Very Usual; For Instead Of Using Only Comparative And Superlative Words, And Intellectual Arguments, I Have Taken The Course (as A Specimen Of The Political Arithmetic I Have Long Aimed At) To Express Myself In Terms Of Number, Weight, Or Measure; To Use Only Arguments Of Sense, And To Consider Only Such Causes, As Have Visible Foundations In Nature.

-William Petty

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The Method I Take To Do This

William Petty

The Method I Take To Do This Is Not Yet Very Usual; For Instead Of Using Only Comparative And Superlative Words, And Intellectual Arguments, I Have Taken The Course (as A Specimen Of The Political Arithmetic I Have Long Aimed At) To Express Myself In Terms Of Number, Weight, Or Measure; To Use Only Arguments Of Sense, And To Consider Only Such Causes, As Have Visible Foundations In Nature.

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