Excerpt from A Treatise on Political Economy, or the Production, Distribution, and Consumption of Wealth, Vol. 1 of 2 In the latter with that enforced attention, with Which public functionaries will ever regard the approach of what must necessarily tend, at every step, to reduce their own importance, and to render the art of govern ment less mysterious and less voluminous. With the public at large, political truth needs no other recommendation, than to be.seen and. 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.