Le Pérou économique

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Identifikator:: 1019703202

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-34598

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Walle, Paul http://d-nb.info/gnd/1057115835

Title:: Le Pérou économique

Edition:: quatrième édition entièrement revue

Place of publication:: Paris

Publisher:: E. Guilmoto, éditeur

Year of publication:: 1913

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (XVI, 387 Seiten)

Digitisation:: 2018

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapitre XVI

Collection:: Economics Books

INTERNATIONAL TRADE 165 that stony kind from which public sentiment recoiled :—“ The economical advantages of commerce are surpassed in importance by those of its effects, which are intellectual and moral. It is hardly possible to over-rate the value, in the present low state of human improve ment, of placing human beings in contact with persons dissimilar to themselves, and with modes of thought and action unlike those with which they are familiar. Commerce is now what war once was, the principal source of this contact. Commercial adventurers from more civilized countries have generally been the first civilizers of barbarians. And com merce is the purpose of the far greater part of the communication which takes place between civilized nations. Such communication has always been, and is peculiarly in the present age, one of the primary sources of progress. To human beings, who, as hitherto educated, can scarcely cultivate even a good quality without running it into a fault, it is indispens able to be perpetually comparing their own notions and customs with the experience and example of persons in different circum stances from themselves ; and there is no nation which does not need to borrow from others, not merely particular arts or practices, but essential points of character in which its

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