Download or read book Stray Thoughts on Wealth and Its Sources (Classic Reprint) written by Serjeant Coulson Robinson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-07 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Stray Thoughts on Wealth and Its Sources I propose, therefore, to take a small community of men, locate them on an hitherto uninhabited island, and isolate them at first from all communi cation with the rest of the world. I, of course, furnish them at the beginning with the wherewithal to make a fair start in their new life, and then describe the course by which with proper industry and energy they may attain to considerable wealth. I may then assume them to come into communi cation and competition with other communities in somewhat similar circumstances to themselves, and trace them onward to further prosperity and Opu lence. But I wish it to be distinctly understood that I am not pretending to write a treatise on political economy. Neither do I arrogate to myself a claim to any fresh discovery, nor in fact to the enuncia tion of anything new, either in theory or argument. All I seek to do is to afford, by familiar and apt illustration of economic principles, food for thought and reflection to those who have never thought or reflected on the subject before. 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.