Excerpt from Economic History of England Nature tends to irregularity and lack of symmetry; human institutions follow the same path. A tree develops, and has a definite character at a particular time; a child grows, but lives his own life though he may not be fully developed. So a people at any period thinks of itself as in some way different from what it was; it considers that it has invented the virtues. Yet at a future time the nation will look back on all its shortcomings with pity and contempt; more of the old abuses ...
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Excerpt from Economic History of England Nature tends to irregularity and lack of symmetry; human institutions follow the same path. A tree develops, and has a definite character at a particular time; a child grows, but lives his own life though he may not be fully developed. So a people at any period thinks of itself as in some way different from what it was; it considers that it has invented the virtues. Yet at a future time the nation will look back on all its shortcomings with pity and contempt; more of the old abuses will then have been toned down and better qualities developed. This means that though a people may consider that it has reached a final and perfect form, yet it is simply passing through a phase. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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