Excerpt from The Curse of CobdenismAlthough Free Trade came subsequently to my first appearance in the world, I confess that I did not begin to feel any doubt about its merits until near the end of the last century. The only apology I am able to make for having so long retained the opinions formed in youth, consists in the fact that my ideas of Cobdenism were not matured until I read Cobden's speeches, one of the most edifying of which is, in part, quoted in the followmg pages.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.