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MUNERA PULVERIS
"Te maris et terræ: numeroque carentis arenæ Mensorem cohibent, Archyta,
Pulveris exigui prope litus parva Matinum Munera."
CHAPTER I.
DEFINITIONS.
1. As domestic economy regulates the acts and habits of a household, Political Economy regulates those of a society or State, with reference to the means of its maintenance.
Political economy is neither an art nor a science; but a system of conduct and legislature, founded on the sciences, directing the arts, and impossible, except under certain conditions of moral culture.
2. The study which lately in England has been called Political Economy is in reality nothing more than the investigation of some
