Warner: American Revolution
Free Trade and British Power:
Joseph Addison, Spectator #69
nCommerce stitches all of mankind into peaceful communication [while politics brings war]
nThriving private fortunes bring public benefits
nNature’s design: to scatter diverse blessings so as to promote “intercourse and traffic”
nBy itself England is a barren, but free trade makes all the riches of the world “ours”
n“Trade, without enlarging the British territories, has given us a kind of additional empire”