18 Decr 1801

Maximum

Ulteriora

In political economy One of the most copious sources of error is a blind and

sordid greediness: grasping at any thing – not enduring to part with any thing –

straining to unite advantages essentially incompatible. Goods are to be bought

of foreigners, but the money which should pay for them is not to be exported in

return. Capital is to be obtained from foreigners, in alleviation of the waste

produced by war loans, but the remuneration for it in the way of annuities, and

the restitution of it in the redemption of the annuities is to be deplored and

fought against as a grievance.