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Excerpt from The Trade of the Great Nations: An Epitome of Statistics Showing the Comparative Growth of the Foreign Trade of the Great Nations During a Quarter of a Century, With Especial Reference to the Foreign Trade of the United Kingdom
Ordinary method of forming these wonderfully and fear fully-made speculations is to take those branches of trade which show a shrinkage, and to compare them with the corresponding branches of some foreign country which show an enlargement - thus, in fact, to look at one side of the shield only. These pseudo-presentments of the commercial situation are often elegant examples of pro found reasoning combined with acute perception, but the excellence of the sequential inferences is vitiated by the premises being radically wrong. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
