Maxims for the Promotion of the Wealth of Nations: Being a Manual of Political Economy
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" There are natural causes tending to '^ render the external demand for the surplus of " agricultural nations a precarious reliance. The " differences of seasons, in the countries which "are the consumers, make immense differences "in the produce of their own soils, in different ** years ; and consequently in the degrees of their " necessity for foreign supply. Plentiful harvests " with them, especially if similar ones occur at " the same time in the countries which are the " furnishers, occasi...on of course a glut in tlic " markets of the latter."-^ XXIII. " There appear strong reasons to 19 Jefferson's Report on the Privlleg"es and Restric- tions of the Commerce of the United States in Foreign Countries. 20 ibid. 21 Hamilton's Report on Manufactures, p. 34. "Idem, "5. 14 THE WEALTH OF NATIONS. ** regard the foreign demand for our surplus pro- " duce as too uncertain a reliance, and to desire " a substitute for it, in an extensive domestic « market."^'' XXIV. " Manufacturers, who constitute the '• most numerous class, after the cultivators of " land, are for that reason the principal consu- *' mers of the surplus of their labour.""^* XXV.
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