Excerpt from An Essay on Circulation and Credit, in Four Parts: And a Letter on the Jealousy of Commerce In order to fupport a doetrine, very different from that which has hitherto prevailed among us, it is not necefl'ary to affirm, that all the principles afl'umed by thofe writers are falfe, or that all their arguments are abfurd. In human fpe; culations the fources of truth and falfehood lie fo near each other, that the fireams foon meet, and are too often confounded together beyond the pofiibility of feparation. The majority of mankind drink deep of the mixture, without enquiry or refleetion. The philofopher endeavours to carry his enquiries upward, to afcend the great fiream, until he reaches the point of conflux, at which truth and falfehood meet and are united. 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.