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3259. FREE TRADE, Human happiness and.—

Could each [country] be free to
exchange with others mutual surpluses for
mutual wants, the greatest mass possible
would then be produced of those things
which contribute to human life and human
happiness; the numbers of mankind would be
increased, and their condition bettered.—
Foreign Commerce Report. Washington ed. vii, 646. Ford ed., vi, 479.
(Dec. 1793)