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Excerpt from The Settler's New Home, or Whether to Go, and Whither?: Being a Guide to Emigrants in the Selection of a Settlement, and the Preliminary Details of the Voyage, Embracing the Whole Fields of Emigration, and the Most Recent Information Relating Thereto; In Two Parts
IT is not unreasonably made a charge against political economist, that they are not agreed as to their objects, and that they are singularly in definite in the application of their principles. They aim at an arith metical exactitude which is not compatible with a due consideration of the disturbing causes which must invalidate their calculations; or else they exclude from the operation of the science, moral and political in¿uences, without the consideration of which it is of little practical value. Some keep in view solely the production of wealth, - others assign more im portance to its distribution - not a few regard only the power, and great ness of a kingdom - wiser men look rather to the diffusion of the general hominess of its subj ects,-the wisest, test economical theories solely by their capacity for enlarging the contentment, security, and comfort of the whole human family.
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