Excerpt from Conversations on Political Economy: In Which the Elements of That Science Are Familiarly Explained
Has not this wretchedness been produced by violent revolutions, which, during a course of ages have impoverished that devoted country, and does it not continue in consequence of the detestable policy of its present masters? But in the natural and undisturbed order of things, is it not clear that the greater number of labourers a sovereign should, after the example of Idomeneus, compel to quit the town in order to work in the country, the better that country would be cultivated?
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