The Country gentleman who is most concerned with the right ordering of trade, both in duty and in interest, is of all others the most remote from any true notions of it, or sense of his stake in it. It is high time somebody should awaken and inform him that he may in his place look a little after it. Locke to John Cary, 2 May 1696
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