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In Prosperous Times The Mercantile Classes Often Realize Fortunes, Which Go Far Towards Securing Them Against The Future; But Unfortunately The Working Classes, Though They Share In The General Prosperity, Do Not Share In It So Largely As In The General Adversity.

To Prevent The Recurrence Of Misery Is, Alas! Beyond The Power Of Man.

It May At First Appear Strange, But I Believe It Is True, That I Cannot By Means Of Money Raise A Poor Man And Enable Him To Live Much Better Than He Did Before, Without Proportionably Depressing Others In The Same Class.

If A Country Can Only Be Rich By Running A Successful Race For Low Wages, I Should Be Disposed To Say At Once, Perish Such Riches!

There Is Scarcely Any Inquiry More Curious, Or, From Its Importance, More Worthy Of Attention, Than That Which Traces The Causes Which Practically Check The Progress Of Wealth In Different Countries, And Stop It, Or Make It Proceed Very Slowly, While The Power Of Production Remains Comparatively Undiminished, Or At Least Would Furnish The Means Of A Great And Abundant Increase Of Produce And Population.