Excerpt from Balance-Sheet of the World for Ten Years, 1870-1880

It is certainly as important for us to know every ten years the progress made by nations in the various branches of industry and finances, as to take a census of their population. The task is, in a manner, easy, since it reduces itself to a careful comparison of the statistics relative to commerce, agriculture, manufactures, revenue, and public debt, as exhibited in the 27 Tables (pages 14 to 40), on which the present work is constructed.

The diagrams show at a glance the results of the said Tables, and here I may observe that the inquiry is confined to the nations of Christendom, that is Europe, America, and the Colonies of Great Britain. It is hardly necessary to add that in all cases the term Great Britain is used as synonymous with the United Kingdom, irrespective of our Colonies.

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