"[Commerce] is a pacific system, operating to cordialise mankind, by rendering Nations, as well as individuals, useful to each other … The invention of commerce … is the greatest approach toward universal civilization that has yet been made by any means not immediately flowing from moral principles."
Trade

January 1, 1970

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