Excerpt from Wealth-Creation Our author belongs to a class of writers, which, um happily, is not a numerous one, composed of men ac tively engaged in the affairs of life and thereby made daily familiar with the practical sides of exchange, barter, and monetary transactions, and yet capable of reasoning correctly on the subject matters of their occupations. Paradoxical as the remark may seem, it is nevertheless true that familiarity on a small scale with the phenomena of mercantile life is more likely to vitiate correct reason ing than to aid it. Ricardo was an example to the con trary, but between him and Mongredien, excepting N ew march, there is scarcely a great political economist of England belonging to the purely commercial class. Business men are prone to take too circumscribed an horizon to be led to universally true rules, and make therefore unsafe guides in the domains of politico-eco nomic science and statesmanship. 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.