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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1847 edition. Excerpt: ... LECTUEE III. POLITICAL-ECONOMY A BRANCH OF GENERAL EDUCATION. Arguments against the systematic study of Political-Economy--Common-sense--Experience--Paradoxes maintained as the conclusions of common-sense--Whether Political-Economy is to be regarded as a part of general education--Political-Economists far more numerous than is commonly supposed--How the Art and the Science of Political-Economy came to exist--The study worthy of cultivation for its ovn sake. Supposing Wealth to be naturally, and Argumenis consequently to have always been, an against the object of sufficiently strong desire to mankind, what need can there be, it may be said, to construct a Science, and an Art founded on that Science, relative to the subject? In a matter about which daily practice and daily observation are concerned, and have been, for so many ages, must not the common-sense of judicious men, and the experience of practical men, be preferable to the subtle systems of theoretical speculators? Some again there are, who are far from regarding with disdain the systematic study of the theory of wealth, who yet have no idea of reckoning it an important part of general education; but as one necessary, perhaps, or useful, to those at the head of public affairs; and to any others, a matter of mere curious speculation. With respect to the prevailing fallacies conCommon- nected with the term Common-sense, Sense. I have elsewhere remarked, that all who employ it with any distinct meaning, intend to denote by it " an exercise of the judgment unaided by any art or system of rules; such as we must necessarily employ in numberless cases of daily occurrence; in which, having no established principles to guide us--no line of procedure, as it were, distinctly chalked out--we...
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