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

But what must be the character of that policy, which aims at national prosperity through the impoverishment of a large proportion of the home producers, with a view to supply foreigners at a cheaper rate, and give them all the benifet of the national privation and self denial?

To have never done anything but make the eighteenth part of a pin, is a sorry account for a human being to give of his existence.

Wherefore it is impossible to succeed in comparing wealth of different eras or different nations. This, in political economy, like squaring the circle in mathematics, is impracticable, for want of a common mean or measure to go by.