CHARACTER AND LOGICAL METHOD OF

POLITICAL ECONOMY.

POLITICAL economy, at least, is found to have sound principles, founded in the moral and physical nature of man, which, however lost sight of in particular measures-however even temporarily controverted and borne down by clamourhave yet a stronger and stronger testimony borne to them in each succeeding generation, by which they must, sooner or later, prevail.-Herschel.

THE

CHARACTER & LOGICAL METHOD

OF

POLITICAL ECONOMY;

BEING A COURSE OF LECTURES DELIVERED IN HILARY TERM, 1857.

BY JOHN E. CAIRNES, A.M.,

WHATELY PROFESSOR OF POLITICAL ECONOMY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF DUBLIN.

LONDON:

LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, LONGMANS AND ROBERTS.

WILLIAM MC GEE AND CO. NASSAU-STREET, DUBLIN.

1857.

232. b. 1.

PRINTED BY R. D. WEBB, GREAT BRUNSWICK-STREET, DUBLIN.

ΤΟ

His Grace the Archbishop of Dublin,

WHOSE WISE LIBERALITY FIRST INTRODUCED,

AND WHOSE WRITINGS HAVE FOSTERED,

THE STUDY OF POLITICAL ECONOMY IN THIS UNIVERSITY,

THIS VOLUME IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED

BY

THE AUTHOR.