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PRINClPLES Of BOLlIlCAL4 ECON-


OMG, or the Laws Of the Formation


of National Wealth. Developed by


means of the Christian Law of Gov


ernment; being the substance Of a dis


course delivered to the Hand Loom


Weavers Commission.


BY VIM. ATKINSON.


With an Introduction, Treating Of the
present state Of the Science of Political
Economy, and the Adaptation of lis
Principles to the condition of our own
Country and the upholding Of its Pros
perity.


BY HORACE GREELEY.


The work Of Mr.. Atkinson is one of
the most instructive and admirable that
has yet appeared on the important and
difficult subject of Political Economy
difficult not so much in its essence or
in the nature Of its laws as in the appI-
cation of these laws TO the dlssinllar,
complicated, varying circumstances of
different nations and periods. The laws
educed by Mr.. Atkinson are so Just, so
clear, so vital, and yet so strangely over
looked by those who arrogate to them
selves the title Of the Political Econo
mists in our day, and who resolve all
Political Economic Science into doing
nothing--of whose universe Somnus IS
God--and who elevate the maxim of
the counter, Buy where you can cheap
est to the summit Of attainable wisdom
and craftsmanship. In their eyes the
cheapest possible productions be-
ing the unerring standards the great
end of human effort; and he who is out
stripped in the headIong race is doomed
TO ruin and starvation by the law of en-
vious strife and depressing competition.
which they blasphemously represent as
the order of Providence! These are
the views put forth by the Political
Economists enthroned in our Colleges
and Senates. as liberal and enlightened.
at least, these are the inevitable re-
suits from those views. 1t was needed
that the spacions fal.acies put forth by
these teachers should be scrutinized and
conluted, aud this has been done in
mastery manner by Mr.. Atkinson. AS
an elementary on Political economy
as refutaton of the doctrines Of sFree
Trade Notwithstanding equal to his
work has ever appeared on either side
Of the Atlantic To the friends of Amer
lcan Industry, therefore, and TO all who
regard the trade, the skill or experience