Excerpt from The Novels and Miscellaneous Works of Daniel De Foe, Vol. 1: Volume the Seventeenth; The Complete English Tradesman
The work which is here offered to the public is a collection of useful instructions for a young tradesman; which are the more necessary, as there never were so many bankruptcies or failures in trade as of late.
Had I not seen, in a few years" experience, many young tradesmen miscarry for want of the very cautions which are here given, I should have thought this work needless, and I am sure, had never gone about to write it; but as the contrary is manifest, I think the world wanted either this or something better.
I make no doubt but there is, generally, as much trade now, and as much gotten by trading as formerly. There must then be some reason why the tradesman cannot support himself and family as well as before. Nor need we be afraid to speak out; the case is but too obvious.
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