This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1814 edition. Excerpt: ...service--we say. " Fatal" because laws and " restriction which have no coercion, and bear too hardly on " the passions or the common sufferance of mankind, inevita" bly defeat their own purpose: they become totally disre" garded, nor is it deemed an impeachment of morality to transgress them. And, it ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1814 edition. Excerpt: ...service--we say. " Fatal" because laws and " restriction which have no coercion, and bear too hardly on " the passions or the common sufferance of mankind, inevita" bly defeat their own purpose: they become totally disre" garded, nor is it deemed an impeachment of morality to transgress them. And, it is a consequence as infallible, " that when men are once allowed to pass the line of their " prescribed duty, at their own option, they will, by de." grees, extend the latitude to the farthest extremes of cor" ruption, embezzlement, and rapine." See also Ninth Report on India Affairs. least that could have been done was surely to adopt some easy mode of contribution. But the mode of contribution turned out to be the worst evil; since, for the inferior object of converting the tribute with a profit into Indian produce, the clearest rules of policy and justice were subverted. In addition to the privilege of pre-emption, claimed in all the Indian markets, other devices, not less injurious, were set on foot for raising money. Some of the most essential articles of consumption, such as opium, salt, betel-nut, and saltpetre, were held under strict monopolies for the benefit of individuals in the first instance, and ultimately for that of the state, whose agents frequently compelled the production of the monopolised articles, under the severest forfeitures and punishments. Monopolies, wherever they exist, must necessarily be destructive both of freedom and industry; nor is it easy to imagine, why it should be necessary in India, to raise the national revenue by such expedients rather than by taxes. 'A monopoly is the device of improvidence, which for a present advantage, wastes For some further...
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