Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: chapter{{Section 4PEELIMINAEY ESSAY ON THE APPLICATION OF THE HISTORICAL METHOD TO THE STUDY OF POLITICAL ECONOMY, BY M. WOLOWSKI, MEMBER OF THE INSTITUTE OF FRANCE. .Ya n/Haiu bene percipiemus Hsu neccssarium nisict novcrimus jus illud usu ton necessarian. Nexum est et cottigatum alterum alteri. JVulli sant servi o(is, cur qucestiones de servis vexamusf Digna imperito vox. ? Cuj., vii, in titiil. Dig. De Justitia et Jure.1 Homo sum, kumani nihil a me alienum futo. ? Terence. lilaprcepotens, ac gloriosa fhilosopliia.? Cicero, De Or., I, 43. It is no foolish desire to make a vain display of citations, that induces us, at the beginning of this essay, intended to point out the results of the application of a new method to the study of Political Economy, to invoke the authority of a poet and moralist, of a jurisconsult and of a philosopher. The writer finds in the words just quoted the loftiest expression of the thought i Ve shall never thoroughly understand the reason of customary law unless we also have a knowledge of that which is not customary. The one is connected and bound to the other. We have no slaves; why vex ourselves with questions about slaves? ? Words worthy of a novice. fI am a man; I think nothing foreign to me that pertains to man. 1 That excellent and glorious philosophy. Vol. I.?: which dictates these lines, viz.: that the impartial researches of history, a profound feeling of man's moral and material wants, and the light of philosophy, should govern in the teaching of a science, the object of which is to show us how those things which are intended to satisfy our wants are produced and distributed among the several classes or individuals of a nation; how they are exchanged one against another, and how they are consume...