CANTO IV - Sophisms for Paltry Profits
Whatever sophisms are collected by the self-interest of a few
merchants, the truth is that all branches of commerce ought
to be free, equally free, and entirely free...
Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot (statesman, 1727-1781)
The Turgot Collection (book)
Paltry profits as per the promiscuous pensions
By potent prohibitions and political precepts
Whilst the citizenry accept unknowingly
Again, kept by coercive inculcation usually
Prepencely stepped on, intensely trampled upon
Rung by rung, brick per brick, thus thin to thick
Moderately, later excessively, then absolutely
Monopolies for commodities or industries
Ergo goods or labor, schemes thence savored
Ah the fiends against the precedences of nature
By the haughty statures, lusting their statues
Stroking their architectures of lifted fixtures
As well pilfered mixtures, until the ejaculations
Bubbles to busts, the stumble from lofty cusp
Anon the subtle struggles thereon the final thrust
Means thus potent as ends latent and patent
By institutions divine or effectively aligned
To the praxeology oft scorned as myth or yarn
That the system of some modern politicians who fancy that they
encourage national commerce by prohibiting the importation of
foreign merchandise is plain delusion...
Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot (statesman, 1727-1781)
The Turgot Collection (book)
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Whatever sophisms are collected by the self-interest of a few
merchants, the truth is that all branches of commerce ought
to be free, equally free, and entirely free...
Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot (statesman, 1727-1781)
The Turgot Collection (book)
Paltry profits as per the promiscuous pensions
By potent prohibitions and political precepts
Whilst the citizenry accept unknowingly
Again, kept by coercive inculcation usually
Prepencely stepped on, intensely trampled upon
Rung by rung, brick per brick, thus thin to thick
Moderately, later excessively, then absolutely
Monopolies for commodities or industries
Ergo goods or labor, schemes thence savored
Ah the fiends against the precedences of nature
By the haughty statures, lusting their statues
Stroking their architectures of lifted fixtures
As well pilfered mixtures, until the ejaculations
Bubbles to busts, the stumble from lofty cusp
Anon the subtle struggles thereon the final thrust
Means thus potent as ends latent and patent
By institutions divine or effectively aligned
To the praxeology oft scorned as myth or yarn
That the system of some modern politicians who fancy that they
encourage national commerce by prohibiting the importation of
foreign merchandise is plain delusion...
Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot (statesman, 1727-1781)
The Turgot Collection (book)
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