Friedrich List - The National System of Political Economy (1841)

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It is no more than fair that England, now that she has attained the culminating point of her industrial growth and progress, should restore again to the nations of Continental Europe a portion of those productive forces which she originally derived from them.

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The nation … must sacrifice some present advantages in order to insure to itself future ones.

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But politics demands, in the interests of each separate nation, guarantees for its independence and continued existence, special regulations to help its progress in culture, prosperity, and power, to build its society into a perfectly complete and harmoniously developed body politic, self-contained and independent.

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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.

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… every nation which makes no forward progress sinks lower and lower, and must ultimately fall

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The world has not been hindered in its progress, but immensely aided in it, by England.

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