Excerpt from Economic and Fiscal Facts and Fallacies The primary object in publishing this work is'to present, in a more connected form, the views which I have advanced from time to time in various books, pamphlets, speeches, and letters to the public journals, on economic and fiscal questions, during a period extending over more than a quarter of a century. Another object is to expose the manner in which the followers of the Manchester School' of economics have misused and-mis applied the valuable truths of political economy; to protest against the elevation of their fiscal tenets to a_ species of religion, the doctrines of which are not even to be questioned; and to dispute their extravagant claims to infallibility, indicated by such expressions as Free Trade, the International Law of the Almighty (cobden); The economic conditions under which we live and move and have our being (asquith); or The eternal truths of the Economic Law (birrell). 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.