It is my intention to make a careful investigation of its merits, and I must begin by soliciting the attention and the patience of the reader.

I will first examine into the inequalities which depend upon natural causes, and afterwards into those which are caused by diversity of taxes.
Here, as elsewhere, we find the theorists who favor protection, taking part with the producer.

Let us consider the case of the unfortunate consumer, who seems to have entirely escaped their attention.

They compare the field of production to the _turf_.

But on the turf, the race is at once a _means and an end_.