Excerpt from An Introductory Lecture on Political Economy When I consider how numerous those adversa ries are, and how widely diffused are thelprej udices which they excite and propagate, all - apprehension for myselfis lost inthe fear that the failures of the professor may be imputed to his. Subject, and' that the vague abstractions, the details, the truisms, the obscurities, and the; inconsistencies which, with all my care, will, I have no: doubt,2 be found in my lectures, may rather deter: those among my hearers to whom the subject is new from proceeding int a study which, in my hands, may, appear uninterest ing, than lead them toprosecute it in the writings of the great masters of the science, and by-patient meditation on the results of their own experience.. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.