arger works on the science. But even he who has read
only thus far must know that political economy is no cold-blooded or
dismal science, as people say. Is it a dismal thing to relieve the
labourer of his load, or to spread his table with the most nutritious
food? No doubt the science is dismal enough so far as it leads us to
reflect upon the needless misery existing on every side. It is dismal to
think of the hundreds of thousands who lengthen out a weary life in
workhouses and prisons and infirmaries. Strikes are dismal; lockouts are
dismal; want of employment, bankruptcy, dear bread, famine, are all
dismal things. But is it political economy which causes them? #Is not
our science more truly described as that beneficent one, which, if
sufficiently studied, would banish such dismal things, by teaching us to
use our powers wisely in relieving the labours and misery of mankind.#

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