This search for individual advantage is admirably connected with the universal good of the whole. By stimulating industry, rewarding ingenuity, and making most effective use of the peculiar powers granted by nature, it distributes labor in the most effective and economical manner; while, by increasing the general mass of productions, it diffuses the general benefit, and binds together the common bond of interests and intercourse, the universal society of nations throughout the civilized world.” (The principles of political economy and taxation pag..