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PRINCIPLES OF POLITICAL ECON


OMY, or the Laws Of the Formation


Of National Wealth. Developed by
means of the Christian Law Of Gov


ernment; being the substance Of dis


course delivered to the Hand-Loo


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 uphoding of its Pros
perlty..


BY HORACE GREELEY.


The work Of Mr.. Atkinson lis 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 It's essence or
in the nature Of its laws as in the appli-
cation Of these laws to the dissimlar,
complicated, varying circumstances of
different nations and periods. The laws
educed by Mr.. Atkinson are so lust, 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 cf attainable wisdom
and craftsmanship. In their eyes the
cheapest possible production-coin 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 blasphemousIy represent as
the order of Providencel 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
coniuted, aud this has been done in a
masterly manner by Mr.. Atkinson. As
an elementary on Political economy
as a refuiaiion Of the doctrines of sFree
Trade Understanding equal 10 his
worlshas ever appeared on either side
ofthe Atlantic: To the friends of Amer
can Industry, therefore, and to all who
regard the trade, the e.skill or experience