Principles of Political Economy

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Excerpt from Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social PhilosophyAnother objection made has been that the books mentioned are known to everyone, at any rate by name, that they are as household words. Everyone, it has been said, knows about Herodotus and Homer, Shakespeare and Milton. There is, no doubt, some truth in this. But even Lord Iddesleigh, as Mr. Lang has pointed out in his had never read Marcus Aurelius, and I may add that he afterwards thanked me warmly for having suggested the 'meditations' to him. It', then, even Load lddesleigh, probably one of the last of English statesmen who knew the literature of Greece and Rome widely and well, ' had not read marcusaurelius, we may well suppose that others also may be in the same position. It is also a curious commentary on what was no doubt an unusually wide knowledge of classical literature that Mr. Lang should ascribe - and probably quite correctly - Lord lddesleigh's never having had his attention called to one of the most beautiful and improving books in classical, or indeed in any other literature, to the fact that the emperor wrote in 'crabbed and corrupt Greek.'About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.