Excerpt from Essay on the Elements of British Industry; Comprising Remarks on the Cause of Our Present Depressed State, Agricultural, Commercial,& Manufacturing, English, Scotch, and Irish: Together With Suggestions for Its Removal Political economists have differed Widely in opinion, and, in endeavouring to erect their several theories, have adopted different branches of industry as the basis on which to build them. Some have adopted the agricultural - some the manufacturing - and some the commercial; but the impropriety of thus laying the all but entire stress upon one element is daily becoming more apparent. Those several branches of national industry are visibly but the subdivision of labour applied to the soil and its productions, in order to render them both beneficial to man. 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.