In the eyes of the modern economist, with his horror of government encouragement to industry, no matter in what time, place, or circumstance, some of Turgot's actions will seem of doubtful wisdom.
Morley critiques the perspective of modern economists on Turgot's policies regarding government intervention in industry.
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But the Poet Laureate has written his own song on the hearts of his countrymen that can never die.
To stint Ireland in power which might be necessary or desirable for the management of matters purely Irish, would be a great error; and if she was so stinted, the end that any such measure might contemplate could not be attained.
My desire is thoroughly to shake up all the materials of the question.
All alike concerned themselves with its truth or falsehood, with what they counted to be its abstract fitness or unfitness.
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