OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, AND THE INNer temple, BARRISTER-AT-LAW THE LAW TO PREPARE THE DIGEST OF THE LAW OF BILLS OF EXCHANGE, BANK NOTES, ETC. LECTURER ON POLITICAL ECONOMY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE IN TWO VOLUMES VOL. I LONDON LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. 1881 All rights reserved LIMI TO THE RIGHT REVEREND HARVEY GOODWIN, D.D. LORD BISHOP OF CARLISLE MY DEAR LORD BISHOP, I have great pleasure in offering you this work for your acceptance. A good many years ago I had the inestimable advantage of enjoying your instruction in the University of Cambridge,— an opportunity which, like too many others I fear, I did not duly appreciate at the time. However, you may say Vidi ego jam juvenem premeret quum serior ætas Nevertheless, your precepts did not die; they only slept for a while; and in due time they bore fruit. In return for your sage instruction I now offer you a new Inductive Science: a new body of phenomena brought under the dominion of Mathematics: a new order of Variable Quantities brought under the Theory of Variable Quantities in general: the great Science of ANALYTICAL ECONOMICS. I am, MY DEAR LORD BISHOP, Your affectionate Pupil, H. D. MACLEOD |