An Essay On the Distribution of Wealth And On the Sources of Taxation By the Re
An Essay On the Distribution of Wealth And On the Sources of Taxation By the Re
Richard Jones
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We shall have a fitter opportunity to point out, how completely the prosperity, or rather the existence, of the towns of Asia, proceeds from the local expenditure of the government. As the citizens are thus destitute Rents. L. 'iO from their position of real strength, so the Asiatic ^0°^ i. Sovereigns, having no body of powerful privileged gect. 7. landed proprietors to contend with, have not had — the motives which the European monarchs had, rSis. To nurse and foster the towns into engines of ...political influence, and the citizens are proverbially the most helpless and prostrate of the slaves of Asia. There exists nothing therefore in the society beneath him, which can modify the power of a sovereign, who is the supreme proprietor of a territory cultivated by a population of ryot peasants. All that there is of real strength in such a population, looks to liim as the sole source not merely of protection but of sub- sistence : he is by his position and necessarily a despot. But the results of Asiatic despotism have ever been the same : while it is strong it is dele- gated, and its power abused by its agents ; when feeble and declining, that power is violently shared by its inferiors, and its stolen authority yet more abused.
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