Die Nationalökonomie in Frankreich

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Identifikator:: 890892032

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-34137

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Author:: Waha, Raymund de http://d-nb.info/gnd/117560855

Title:: Die Nationalökonomie in Frankreich

Place of publication:: Stuttgart

Publisher:: Verlag von Ferdinand Enke

Year of publication:: 1910

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (XIX, 540 Seiten)

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Buch I Die liberale Schule

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34 Benjamin Franklin [1760 for the blood and treasure she had spent in “their cause ’’; confess that enough had now been done “for them’’; allow that “English forts, raised in proper passes, will, with the wisdom and vigor of her ad- ministration,” be a sufficient future protection; ex- press their desires that their people may be confined within the mountains, lest, if they be suffered to spread and extend themselves in the fertile and pleasant country on the other side, they should “increase infinitely from all causes,’ “live wholly on their own labor,” and become independent; beg, therefore, that the French may be suffered to remain in possession of Canada, as their neighbourhood may be useful to prevent our increase, and the removing them may “in its consequences be even dangerous’’*; —1I say, should such an address from the colonies make its appearance here (though, according to the Remarker, it would be a most just and reasonable one), would it not, might it not, with more justice be answered: “ We understand you, Gentlemen, per- fectly well; you have only your interest in view; you want to have the people confined within your present limits, that in a few years the lands you are possessed of may increase tenfold in value. You want to reduce the price of labor by increasing num- bers on the same territory, that you may be able to set up manufactures and vie with your mother country. You would have your people kept in a body, that you may be more able to dispute the commands of the crown, and obtain an independ- ency. You would have the French left in Canada t Remarks, pp. 50, 5I.

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