INTRODUCTION.

The immediate object we have in this introduction is
0 put before the reader such evidence as may be sufficient
 to support and establish our proposition that the
subjects brought together under the title of political
sconomy are not at the present time so arranged and
;ombined into a sound and coherent system as to justify
‘he claim of this collection of doctrines and opinions to
be considered a part of Science.
To do this we feel sure that the plan, most satisfactory
and convenient to the English reader, will be for us to
juote, from the recent writings of a very eminent teacher,
the conclusions which a careful consideration of the
svidence has brought him to adopt, and then to show
why, and on what particular grounds, we object to his
sonelusions as unsound.
By thus considering the conclusions and reasoning of
a writer who has carefully brought together the past
history of the subject and ably reviewed the works of
nis predecessors, we shall spare our readers and ourselves
 the necessity of again traversing the road and
surveying the scenery with which that writer and his
predecessors are supposed to have made the publie
amilar.