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Excerpt from A Treatise on the Wealth, Power, and Resources of the British Empire, in Every Quarter of the World, Including the East Indies: The Rise and Progress of the Funding System Explained, With Observations on the National Resources for the Beneficial Employment of a Redundant Population, and for Rewarding the Military and Naval Officers, Soldiers, and Seamen
He is not aware, that these important subjects have been treated in the same concise and connected manner, or that it has been attempted before to discover the actual wealth of the nation through the medium of a specific valuation of every species of existing property, or to estimate the new property produced annually by the labour of the people, aided by ingenious machinery, and invigo rated by skill and capital; nor does it appear that any effort has heretofore been made to show by estimate, or the rules of political arithmetic, in what proportions, according' to the ascertained population, this new property, created from year to year, upon which the nation exists, is divided among the different classes 'form ing the body politic. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
