...purposes. CHAPTER XIV THE IMPERIALISM OF ADAM SMITH § 1. The "Shopkeeper" Idea of Empire Criticised. " To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising...appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers but extremely fit for a nation...

...strong, sensitive, and aspiring, the dissolution of their union awakens no surprise. If it was possible " to found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers," it was not for this alone that it could be maintained. Thus the old colonial system collapsed, and...

...attitude of men to the Empire even early in the seventeenth century . Then began that settled project, "to found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers," * which Adam Smith attacked as the project was coming to an end. First the East India Company — sole...

...after the passing of the Regulating Act, that empire was coming, adding the shrewd comment : — " To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of commerce may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers " ; thus anticipating...

...celebrated passage in his Wealth of Nations, sets it forth as a gigantic system of national shopkeeping. " To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising...appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers ; but extremely fit for a nation...

...and of disrespect. Adam Smith, the great economist, in referring to the public question, wrote : " To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising...a project fit only for a nation of shop-keepers." Napoleon too is frequently quoted as referring to England as " only a nation of shop-keepers," but...

...gwrhaps at Herne ; the place of publication is not given." To found a great empire for the sole pur]K>sc of raising up a people of customers may at first sight...appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. — ADAM SMITH: Wealth vf Satiunt, vol. ii. book v. chap. rii. parts. (177».) And what is true of...

...this end. The ordinary reasons in favour of Free Trade do not touch such a case. — Lord Haldane. To found a great Empire for the sole purpose of raising...appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers, but extremely fit for a nation...

...for, you see, we are a military nation". But like many a good phrase, it goes back to Adam Smith, who said: "To found a great empire for the sole purpose...of raising up a people of customers, may at first appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for...

...government as chiefly a means for increasing markets abroad or using colonial markets. As Adam Smith said, " To found a great empire for the sole purpose...appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers, but extremely fit for a nation...