For the more rapid the growth of a spirit of industrial invention and improvement, of social and political reform, the wider becomes the gap between stationary and progressive nations, and the more dangerous it is to remain on the further side.


Introduction, in Hirst (1909), pp. 287–288 - The National System of Political Economy (1841)

Friedrich List Quotes

For the more rapid the growth of a spirit of industrial invention and improvement, of social and political reform, the wider becomes the gap between...

For the more rapid the growth of a spirit of industrial invention and improvement, of social and political reform, the wider becomes the gap between...

For the more rapid the growth of a spirit of industrial invention and improvement, of social and political reform, the wider becomes the gap between...

For the more rapid the growth of a spirit of industrial invention and improvement, of social and political reform, the wider becomes the gap between...