CONTENTS.

Part

I. QUESTIONS IN POLITICS AND POLITICAL ECO-

NOMY.

11. QUESTIONS RELATING TO THE NATURAL AND

CIVIL HISTORY OF MANKIND, AND TO THE

PROGRESS OF SOCIETY...

III. QUESTIONS IN METAPHYSICS AND MORAL PHI-

LOSOPHY.

IV. MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS.

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ESSAYS

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FORMATION AND PUBLICATION OF OPINIONS,

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ON OTHER SUBJECTS.

PART I.

QUESTIONS

IN

POLITICS AND POLITICAL ECONOMY.

B

ON

POLITICS

AND

POLITICAL ECONOMY.

QUESTION I.

WHAT DEGREE OF PRACTICAL IMPORTANCE OUGHT TO BE ASCRIBED TO THE SCIENCE OF POLITICAL ECONOMY?

A WRITER in the Quarterly Review, No. 29, considers the subjects of population, bullion, and corn laws, in the same light as the scho-, lastic questions of the middle ages; and puts marks of admiration to them, expressive of his utter astonishment, that such perishable stuff should engage any portion of the public