BY HORACE GREELEY,
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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 appli-
cation Of these laws to the dlssimllar,
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-
mlsts 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 ewes the
cheapest possible production-coin be-
ing the unerring standards the great
end of human effort; and he who is out
stripped in the headlong race is doomed
to ruin and starvation by the law Of en-
vlons 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. :.
lat least, these are the inevitable re.
suits from those views. It was needed
that The spacions fal!acies put forth by
these teachers should be scrutinized and
confuted, aud this has been done in a
masterly manner by Mr.. Atkinson. AS
an elementary on Political economy
asa refulaton Of the doctrines of Free
Trade Understanding equal TO his
work has ever appeared on either side
Of the Atlantic. To the friends of Amer
lean Industry, therefore, and to all who
regard the trade, the skiIlo experience
