The Trade Of Banks Is The Buying

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.

Money Is The Best Rule Of Commerce.

It Were Good To Know How Much Hay An Acre Of Every Sort Will Bear; How Many Cattle The Same Weight Of Each Sort Of Hay Will Feed And Fatten; What Quantity Of Grain And Other Commodities The Same Acre Will Bear In One, Three Or Seven Years; Unto What Use Each Soil Is Proper; All Which Particulars I Call Intrinsic Value, For There Is Also Another Value Merely Accidental Or Extrinsic.

Wherefore The Race Being Not To The Swift, Etc. But Time And Chance Happening To All Men, I Leave The Judgement Of The Whole To The Candid, Of Whose Correction I Shall Never Be Impatient.

Causes Of Civil War Are Also, That The Wealth Of The Nation Is In Too Few Mens Hands, And That No Certain Means Are Provided To Keep All Men From A Necessity Either To Beg, Or Steal, Or Be Souldiers.