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if so, what and where are the hands by which the loss is
sustained? — and be they what and where
they may, what becomes of what taking the whole
community together, becomes of the advantage?
The solution of these difficulties a perfect solution may present
itself as be another ingredient in the composition
of a compleat satisfaction: these pages shall
therefore not be closed, till it be attempted: without attempting it
but this being also a little out of the direct
but being another parergon
road, and the road plunging down into the
very depths. — the as yet unfathomed
depths — of political economy, it may
like the other, be dismissed to an appendix
be separated from discarded out of the thr body of this paper,
and thrown into deposited in a place where it may
be looked at, or not, as the fancy or leisure
may determine.
Mean time both these questions are started brought to view —
and started brought to view thus early, that it may seem they
have that in framing the plan they have not
passed unobserved — that there is no delusion
in the case — for that every quarter, into
at which delusion could have entered, has
been explored — that in the formation of the
plan I have been upon my guard against
delusion — against delusion in all its shapes.