The Trade Of Banks Is

An House Is Of A Double Nature, Viz., One, Wherein It Is A Way And Means Of Expence, The Other As It Is An Instrument And Tool Of Gain.

Here We Are To Remember That In Consequence Of Our Opinion That Labor Is The Father And Active Principle Of Wealth, As Lands Are The Mother, That The State By Killing, Mutilating, Or Imprisoning Their Members Do Withal Punish Themselves.

Causes Of Civil War Are Also, That The Wealth Of The Nation Is In Too Few Mens Hands, And That No Certain Means Are Provided To Keep All Men From A Necessity Either To Beg, Or Steal, Or Be Souldiers.

Money Is The Best Rule Of Commerce.

The Method I Take To Do This Is Not Yet Very Usual; For Instead Of Using Only Comparative And Superlative Words, And Intellectual Arguments, I Have Taken The Course (as A Specimen Of The Political Arithmetic I Have Long Aimed At) To Express Myself In Terms Of Number, Weight, Or Measure; To Use Only Arguments Of Sense, And To Consider Only Such Causes, As Have Visible Foundations In Nature.