For, on the one hand, it is plain that the system of providing the Company's import into Europe, resting almost wholly by an investment from its territorial revenues, has failed: during its continuance it was supported on principles fatal to the prosperity of that country.
Burke argues that the current system of importing goods into Europe from the Company's revenues has failed and is detrimental to the prosperity of the country.
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