La Hongrie de l'Adriatique au Danube

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Identifikator:: 844773522

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-50582

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Tissot, Victor http://d-nb.info/gnd/117628085

Title:: La Hongrie de l'Adriatique au Danube

Place of publication:: Paris

Publisher:: Plon

Year of publication:: 1883

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (412 S., [12] Bl.)

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapitre VIII

Collection:: Economics Books

POSTSCRIPT. 281. THE story of the growth of English Industry and The treat Commerce has not come to an end; and no narrator can ot the pretend to follow it to the close; he is forced to choose some 5:00 point at which he thinks it convenient to break off the England shread. There are many reasons why it seems wise to the present writer not to attempt to enter on the recent economic history of the country, or to delineate the course of affairs since 1850. At that period the abandonment of Mercantilism had become complete, and the reaction against Laissez Faire had begun to make itself clearly felt, so far as the regulation of industry and of internal transport are concerned. The treatment of recent history would necessarily be presents lifferent from that which has been attempted in dealing sien with the affairs of other days. Contemporaries enjoy an admirable position for chronicling events and putting on record vivid descriptions of passing occurrences, but they are aot necessarily better fitted than those who look on from a distance, to analyse the conditions which have brought about a change. Since economic causes do not lie on the surface, there is all the more danger that men may fail to appreciate the really important forces that are at work in their generation. It does not come easy to everyone to hold aimself severely aloof from the interests and sentiments of his own day, so that he can hope to form the dispassionate judgment which is possible in tracing the course of affairs in bygone times. The financial and economic history of England, during the last fifty years, has been deeply affected by the personal influence of Cobden’s most notable disciple. Men, who have felt the magnetic attraction which Mr Gidstone >xercised, are hardly fitted to judge how far the extraordinary levelopment of particular sides of economic life, which took

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