Still how unenlightened and ignorant are the very nations we term civilized! - Jean-Baptiste Say

A much larger value is consumed in lettuces than in pineapples, throughout Europe at large; and the superb shawls of Cachemere are, in France, a very poor object in trade, in comparison with the plain cotton goods of Rouen.

When a tree, a natural product, is felled, is society put into possession of no greater produce than that of the mere labour of the woodman?

And let no government imagine, that, to strip them of the power of defrauding their subjects, is to deprive them of a valuable privilege. A system of swindling can never be long lived, and must infallibly in the end produce much more loss than profit.