Excerpt from Lectures on Political Economy
These Lectures were recently delivered at the Ladies College in Bedford Square; but some passages which were omitted as unsuitable to the audience, or by reason of the limits of time, are now restored.
The delivery was a sudden thought, determined on and begun in a fortnight's time. The publishing is also enforced by the desire to put the lectures more fully into the possession of the audience. In the midst of many occupations I cannot hope to give to them any elaborate perfection of form; and I have thought it far better to leave them with all the directness, abruptness, and dictatorial manner appropriate to teaching. Moreover, the necessity of composing exactly thirteen lectures of an hour each, has in part cramped the arrangement. But in apologizing for defects of form, I would not wish to imply that the opinions or thoughts are hasty. Where I have controverted great authorities, it is after long and deliberate thought; and not with any desire to undervalue those by whose labours we profit. But the very eminence of great writers makes their errors mischievous, if not disavowed.
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