Excerpt from Principles of Political Economy, Vol. 3: Books IV and V As intimated at the outset, the subject has been treated throughout from the positive standpoint; but as this purely scientific attitude is liable to be misunderstood. I have indicated in the final chapter my own views of the relations of political economy to morality and religion. 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.