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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    9. They think the Cafe of the primitive Chriftians, as it is reprefented in the Adds of the Apofles, looks like that of the prefent Diffenters, (1 mean externally.) Moreover it is to be ob~ ferved that Trade doth not (as fome think) belt flourifh under popular Governments, but rather that Trade is moft vigorouily carried on, in e- very State and Government, by the heterodox Part of the fame, and fuch as profefs Opinions different from what are publickly eftablifhed : (that is to fay) in India where the Mahometan Religion is authorized, there the Banians are the moft confiderable Merchants. In the Pur- kijh Empire the Jews and Chriftians. At Ve- nice, Naples, Leghorn., Genoa, and Lifbon, Jews, and Non - Papift Merchant-Strangers : But to be fhort, in that Part of Europe, where the Roman Catholick Religion now hath, or lately hath had Eftablifhment, there three Quarters of the whole Trade is in the Hands of inch as have feparated from that Church (that is to fay) the Inhabitants of England, Scotland, and Ire- land, as alfo thofe of the United Provinces, with Denmark, Sweden, and Norway, together with rhe Subjects of the German Proteftant Princes, and the Hans Towns, do at this Day poffefs three Quarters of the Trade of the World 5 and even in France itlelf, the Hugonots are proporti¬ onally far the greateft Traders; nor is it to be denied but that in Ireland, where the laid Ro¬ man Religion is not authorized, there the Pro- fdlbrs thereof have a great Part of the Trade. From