PREFACE. THE following pages form a portion of a Course of Lectures, which I delivered in the University of Cambridge in the autum of 1864. For the convenience of the general reader, I have divided the various subjects discussed, into separate Chapters. It was necessary in addressing a class of students, to expound many of the elementary principles of Economic Science; I have thought that many of these expositions might be here admitted. In the Chapter on Trades Unions and Strikes. an allusion is made to the trade outrages at Sheffield. I think it is only fair to state that I have recently visited Sheffield, and after many interviews with both the Employers and the Employed, I have come to the conclusion, that these outrages have for some years been discontinued, and that they are now most heartily discountenanced by the working men. TRINITY HALL, CAMBRIDGE, |
