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subdued and refined style which is not natural to me. The book may be injured by my inability to correct these faults. But for the theory therein registered, no such apology is offered: it has been forced into my mind by a constant and long continued intimacy with the world of business: it is here reduced to a digested and systematic form, after an attentive examination of what others have written upon the same subject, and if it cannot stand the test of the severest fire that can be opened upon it by the most accomplished and unrelenting politician, or political economist, and receive the bullets like an iron target, merely to lay them flattened at its feet, I shall not long be found to remain its advocate.

EDINBURGH, 14, BRANDON STREET,
October, 1831.

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