A Manual of Political Economy Quotes

“If we undertook to deduce the laws of human nature from their manifestations in the action of a single individual, it would end in failure, because no two individuals, to say nothing of original diversities of constitution, are surrounded by the same circumstances. What concerns us, however, in Political Economy, is the conduct of men associated in communities — a conduct springing not from * " In reading certain Economists, one might be led to think that the products of industry were not made fur man, but that man was made for the products."—Drop.”
― Erasmus Peshine Smith, A Manual of Political Economy