An Essay on the Principle of Population, Excerpt 70 · Thomas Malthus

The Dutch and French colonies, though under the government of exclusive companies of merchants, which, as Dr Adam Smith says very justly, is the worst of all possible governments, still persisted in thriving under every disadvantage.

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