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So far as we can gather from what we have

looked into of RAM- SAY On the Distribution of Wealth, it seems a tough morsel even for the most patient of political economists to master. Consider- ing how much has been written upon the subject, and how much has been read by the class which is likely to peruse such a book, five hundred large octavo pages on the Distribution of Wealth would seem to involve much verbiage. Looking into it, however, we see it contains a compendium of the whole science, in order to enable the authorto make clear his new views upon Profits. "What these are, we are not yet able to divine. If we shall ever force our way through the wood of words and find them, we will report what they are.