[21] The French Socialism of the Proudhon type suffers from the same national hereditary disease.
[22] “Benjamin Franklin, The Works of, etc.,” ed. by I. Sparks, vol. II., Boston, 1836. “A Modest Inquiry into the Nature and Necessity of a Paper Currency.”
[23] L. c., p. 265.
[24] L. c., p. 267.
[25] L. c., “Remarks and Facts relative to the American Paper Money,” 1764.
[26] See “Papers on American Politics; Remarks and Facts relative to the American Paper Money,” 1764, l. c.
[27] See e. g. Galiani, “Della Moneta,” in vol. 3 of Scrittori Classici italiani di Economia politica (Published by Custodi). Parte Moderna, Milano, 1803. “La fatica, he says, è l’unica che dà valore alla cosa” (“only effort can give value to any thing”). The designation of labor as “fatica,” strain, effort, is characteristic of the southerner.
[28] Steuart’s work, “An Inquiry into the Principles of Political Economy, being an Essay on the Science of Domestic Policy in Free Nations,” appeared first in London in two quarto volumes in the year 1767, ten years before Adam Smith’s “Wealth of Nations.” I quote from the Dublin edition of 1770. (The references to pages are the same for the standard London edition of 1767, except where otherwise stated. Translator.)
[29] Steuart, l. c., vol. I., p. 181-183.
[30] Steuart, l. c., vol. I., p. 361-362.