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Now that I have thus shown my reader in concrete terms what advantages accrue to individuals from the rural trade, the way also appears to be cleared to demonstrate that it is useful to the country in general.
By country we simply mean the inhabitants of the country. It has now been shown that the farmer benefits and that the towns do not suffer unreasonable and unfair losses
but rather benefit through their buying agents; is the country then not bound to benefit from it? The matter is quite clear. Our regulated trade in Europe and our socalled useful commercial system has, judging from our first example, obliged many farmers to quite fruitlessly waste many days’ work that could have been used to improve the land. I have shown that by means of the rural trade all such things may be eliminated to the great advantage of the country; who, then, does not see the utility of that to the country? Or when the individual gains, without depriving anyone of anything by cunning, force and deceit, then the country can only gain thereby. I do not wish to dwell any longer on this point, however, which should already be regarded by all thoughtful persons as axiomatic for our domestic economic system, but let us proceed.
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