Excerpt from Communal and Commercial Economy: Some Elementary Theorems of the Political Economy of Communal and of Commercial Societies, Together With an Examination of the Correlated Theorems of the Psuedo-Science of Wealth as Taught by Ricardo and Mill
The laws of nature never change; but under all circumstances, the due and calculable effect will follow a given cause. Where the occurrences are not such as we expected, no one now thinks of attributing the discrepancy to miraculous or arbitrary changes in the laws, but it is at once known that our expectations were founded on ignorance. Should the teaching of any two sciences come into conflict, we should not attempt to reconcile them by assuming the laws of nature to be not the same in the two cases, but we should know at once that one or both of our sciences were false, and we should endeavour to correct them.
The actions of men are not supernatural, but are also part of nature, and their effects are subject to her laws. It is a fact that the acts daily done by man will influence either for good or ill his future well-being, and right action in his daily life is a matter of vast importance to him, and to those who will come after him. If he has two sciences of conduct, and they are in conflict, it behoves him to weigh well which he will follow, for assuredly they cannot both be true, and woe betide him if he take the false one for his guide; nature is pitiless to those who take the wrong path.
This work is a treatise on political economy, and not on ethics: an examination of the grounds on which the latter rest would be as much beyond my limits as a discussion of the binomial theorem; but it is within my province to point out that the political economy taught in England is wholly at variance with the ethics taught everywhere, and at every period of the world's history.
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