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PRINCIPLES OF OFPOLITlCALECON-


OMY, 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 WIN. ATKINSON.


With an Introduction, Treating Of the
present state Of the Science Of Polilica!
Economy, and the Adaptation Of It's
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 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-
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 attainabe wisdom
and statesmanship. In their eyes the
cheapest possible production 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-
vious strife and depressing competition,
which they basphemously 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 a
mastery manner by Mr.. Atkinson. AS
an elementary on Political economy
as refuiation Of the doctrines of Free
Trade Notwithstanding equal 10 his
work has ever appeared on either side
oflhe Atlantic. To The friends Of Amer
ican Industry, therefore. aud 10 all who
regard the t.ade, 'he skill or eyperienec