FIRST of all, kind reader, I wish to explain why it was that I wrote this little work. On the one hand, I saw that our young men, not only laymen, but clerics also, had need of initiation in economic science, because it is interwoven with almost all the affairs of civil life; whilst, on the other, I found no course of instruction fitted to be a we guide for them. The earlier writers on Political Economy had their minds misled by the sensistic philosophy of their time; and philosophy, when bad, infects, being the root of them, all the other sciences. Those who came after followed their...