Several essays in political arithmetick / by Sir William Petty.

  • William Petty
Date:
1755
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Credit: Several essays in political arithmetick / by Sir William Petty. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PR EFAC E. O R A S MU CH as Men, who are in a de- V caying Condition, or who have but an ill Opinion of their own Concernments, indead of being (as fome think) the more indudrious to redd: the Evils they apprehend, do contrari- wife become the more languid and ineffectual jn all their Endeavours, neither caring to at¬ tempt or profecute even the probable Means of their Relief. Upon this Conftderation, as a Member of the Commonwealth, next to know¬ ing the precife Truth in what Condition the common Intereft dands, I would in all doubt¬ ful Cafes think the bed, and confequently not defpair, without drong ai>d manifed Reafons, carefully examining whatever tends to leffen my Hopes of the publick Welfare. I have therefore thought fit to examine the following Perfuafions, which I find toQ current in the World, and too much to have affefted the Minds of fome, to the Prejudice of all, viz. That the Rents of Lands are generally fallen; that therefore, and for many other Reafons, the G 3 whole