But, is it possible for princes and ministers to be enlightened, when private individuals are not so? - Jean-Baptiste Say

No human being has the faculty of originally creating matter, which is more than nature itself can do. But any one may avail himself of the agents offered him by nature, to invest matter with utility.

The wants of mankind are supplied and satisfied out of the gross values produced and created, and not out of the net values only.

It is a melancholy but an undoubted fact, that, even in the most thriving countries, part of the population annually dies of mere want. Not that all who perish from want absolutely die of hunger; though this calamity is of more frequent occurrence than is generally supposed.