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on any subject, can never be surprizing, and least of all, when positive facts are difficult to pro- cure. Without undoubted facts, we can have only principles to appeal to, which‘some consider as the basis of all political knowledge; others, and myself among the rest, as conclusions too often drawn from(perhaps able) reasoning, or in- sufficient data, being in effect, though digni- fied by the term, nothing more than theories plausibly sketched. Were they corollaries re- sulting from multiplied experiments, every ra- tional mind would readily submit to their au- thority.

On the present subje&t there is another, and a very fertile source of error—Supplying food to a people, depends mostly on agriculture, and every manisafarmer. Nota step can be taken, not a position maintained, but individual experience 1s appealed to; a basis so narrow to support opl-

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