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Adam Smith advantage agricultural nation agricultural products agriculturist attained balance of trade century circumstances cities civilisation colonies commercial policy competition condition consequence consumption Continental corn corn laws cosmopolitical cotton countries cultivation culture division of labour Dutch effect England English manufactured established exchange existence export facturing favour fisheries foreign manufactured foreign trade France free trade French German greater Hansards Hanseatic League Holland important improved increase independence individual influence intercourse interests internal Italy J. B. Say latter laws liberty maintain manu manufac manufacturing industry manufacturing nation manufacturing power material capital mental merchants merely Methuen Treaty millions national industry native nature naval power navigation North America political economy population Portugal possession powers of production precious metals productive powers progress promote prosperity protective duties raw materials rent respect restrictions Russia Spain supremacy tariff territory theory tion towns Treaty union United Venice wealth Wealth of Nations whole woollen Zollverein
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Page 131 - Between each individual and entire humanity, however, stands the nation, with its special language and literature, with its peculiar origin and history, with its special manners and customs, laws and institutions, with the claims of all these for existence, independence, perfection and continuance for the future...
Page 131 - ... and in its united character is still opposed to other societies of a similar kind in their national liberty, and consequently can only under the existing conditions of the world maintain self-existence and independence by its own power and resources. As the individual chiefly obtains by means of the nation and in the nation mental culture, power of production, security, and prosperity, sO is the civilisation of the human race only conceivable and possible by means of the civilisation and development...
Page 10 - A merchant, it has been I said very properly, is not necessarily the citizen of any particular country. It is in a great measure indifferent to him from what place he carries on his trade; and a very trifling disgust will make him remove his capital, and together with it all the industiy which it supports, from one country to another.
Page 98 - The power of producing wealth is therefore infinitely more important than wealth itself; it insures not only the possession and the increase of what has been gained, but also the replacement of what has been lost.
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Page 7 - Russia had conferred privileges on an English company. The order of Teutonic knights, who had for centuries been the allies as well as (originally) the children of the League, declined and was dissolved. The Dutch and the English drove them out of all markets, and supplanted them in every court. Finally, the discovery of the route to the East indies by the Cape of Good Hope, operated most seriously to their disadvantage. These leaguers, who during the period of their might and prosperity had scarcely...
Page viii - The present state of the nations is the result of the accumulation of all discoveries, inventions, improvements, perfections, and exertions of all generations which have lived before us; they form the mental capital of the present human race...
Page iv - To propose that Great Britain should voluntarily give up all authority over her colonies, and leave them to elect their own magistrates, to enact their own laws, and to make peace and war as they might think proper, would be to propose such a measure as never was and never will be adopted by any nation in the world.
Page 277 - ... a statesman will know and must know, over and above that, how the productive powers of a whole nation can be awakened, increased, and protected, and how on the other hand they are weakened, laid to sleep, or utterly destroyed...
Page 245 - The school recognises no distinction in reference to the establishment of manufacturing industry in a State between those nations which are not adapted for such industry and those which, owing to the nature of their territory, to perfectly developed agriculture, to their civilisation, and to their just claims for guarantees for their future prosperity, for their permanence, and for their power, are clearly qualified to establish such an industry for themselves. The school fails to perceive that under...