With no fixed opinions in relation to the causes of public prosperity, the nation, like a ship without chart or compass, was driven about by the caprice of the winds and the folly of the pilot, alike ignorant of the place of her departure or destination.


Introduction, p. lvi - A Treatise On Political Economy (Fourth Edition) (1832)

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With no fixed opinions in relation to the causes of public prosperity, the nation, like a ship without chart or compass, was driven about by the...

With no fixed opinions in relation to the causes of public prosperity, the nation, like a ship without chart or compass, was driven about by the...

With no fixed opinions in relation to the causes of public prosperity, the nation, like a ship without chart or compass, was driven about by the...

With no fixed opinions in relation to the causes of public prosperity, the nation, like a ship without chart or compass, was driven about by the...