Excerpt from Free America: Short Chapters Showing How Liberty Brings Prosperity

This frank avowal of the practical purpose of this book will not please those who affect superi ority to the rest of mankind. Neither will it find favor with those who consider an appeal to self interest immoral, or at least low opportunism. But it is believed that Americans will welcome this attempt to set forth as simply as possible the causes which prevent them from enjoying the wealth to which their industry and skill entitle them.

The man who dreams of attaining paradise by at tempts to conform to an abstract moral law, will find little of interest in these pages. The practical man of common sense, who knows that riches are not to be had through dreams of righteousness, will find here much that will profit him in his affairs. If he will carry out the suggestions made in this book, he will certainly become more prosperous.

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