PREFACE, 
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the use of his terms through a long train of rea- 
soning, while the whole of his conclusions may 
be vitiated by an unperceived transition from 
one meaning to another in the original adjust- 
ment of his premises, or in the first steps of his 
argument. 
Besides Mr. Ricardo, the only writerson whom 
there are any strictures worthy of notice in the 
following work, are Mr. Malthus, Mr. Mill, 
and the author of the Templars’ Dialogues on 
Political Economy, published in the London 
Magazine; of whom the two latter may be 
considered as having adopted the doctrines of 
Mr. Ricardo with little variation. 
Mr. Malthus and Mr. Mill are too well 
known to the students of political economy, to 
render it necessary to say any thing in this 
Place as to their general merits, and it can ex- 
cite no surprise that the writings of either 
should be subjects of examination in a treatise