FIRST of all, kind reader, I wish to explain why it was that I
wrote this little work. On the one hand, I saw that our young men,
not only laymen, but clerics also, had need of initiation in
economic science, because it is interwoven with almost all the
affairs of civil life; whilst, on the other, I found no course of
instruction fitted to be a we guide for them. The earlier writers
on Political Economy had their minds misled by the sensistic
philosophy of their time; and philosophy, when bad, infects, being
the root of them, all the other sciences. Those who came after
followed their predecessors blindly, or, if they partly differed
from them, wrote nevertheless under the influence of modem
liberalism. Now, modem liberalism is like a blue-bottle fly.
Wherever it settles, it leaves a germ of corruption and a bad
smell. My intention, therefore, was to prepare something like a
compendium of sound principles, that would suffice to put young men
on the right road, along which they might proceed safely. In
carrying out that idea I have, as you will see, availed myself of
the theories taught by the best professors, but not without freely
discussing their doctrines and refuting their errors. This book is
not addressed to the learned. That would have required greater
powers and more knowledge. It is meant for aspirants and novicos.
Virginibus puerisque canto. I could have wished for more time to
write it in; but my advanced age of nearly eighty years forbade me
to expect that.
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