On the other hand, several of the precautions inserted in this contract, and repeated in all the subsequent, strongly indicated the evils against which it is extremely difficult, if not impossible, to guard a monopoly of this nature and in that country.
Burke warns of the inherent difficulties in safeguarding against the evils of monopolies in certain markets.
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