[1228] Child, New Discourse of Trade, p. 88. As to the good management of the Dutch in this regard, cp. Howell, as cited above, p. 334.
[1229] Child, whose main concern was to reduce the rate of interest by law, proposed (p. 98) to sell paupers as slaves on the plantations, "taking security for ... their freedom afterwards." An antagonist (see pref. p. xi) proposed a law limiting wages.
[1230] Above, p. 434.
[1231] Josiah Tucker, Essay on Trade, 4th ed. pp. 46, 105.
[1232] Id. pp. 28, 50, 51; Richardson's Essay on the Decline of the Foreign Trade (often attributed to Decker), ed. 1756, pp. 46-64.
[1233] France also, of course, still kept up trade monopolies (Tucker, p. 36).
[1234] The fallacy was indeed soon exposed as such by the more enlightened economists. Thus the French writer Samber, in his Memoirs of the Dutch Trade (Eng. tr. ed. 1719, p. 75), speaks of the French rulers of Colbert's day as having "entertained a notion that they could carry on trade after a new unheard-of method: they proposed to sell their goods to their neighbours, and buy none of theirs." But this was none the less the prevailing ideal of the age. Cp. Jansen's General Maxims of Trade, 1713, cited by Buckle, i, 217.
[1235] Cp. A. von Brandt, Beiträge zur Geschichte der französischen Handelspolitik, 1896, pp. 25-28.
[1236] L. Dussieux, Étude biographique sur Colbert, 1886, ch. vi, § 2.
[1237] Cp. Child, New Discourse, p. 17; Petty, Essays, p. 205; Tucker, Essay on Trade, 4th ed. pp. 45-57. For a general view of the discussion see Schulze-Gävernitz, Der Grossbetrieb, 1892, Einleitung.