The Collected Writings of Thomas De Quincey (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The Collected Writings of Thomas De Quincey Among De Quincey´s various readings and studies during the period of his settled residence at the Lakes from 1809 onwards there had been some attention to Political Economy. Especially in 1811, when he was in the twenty-sixth year of his age, he had been led, he tells us, "to look into loads of books and pamphlets on many branches of Economy"; and the taste for such readings had continued with him through the rest of his bachelor life, and the first year of his married life, in the Grasmere cottage. With no great admiration, it appears, however, for what Were then the more recent writings, English or French, in Adam Smith´s new science! "I saw," he says, "that these were generally the very dregs and rinsings of the human intellect, and that any man of sound head, and practised in wielding logic with a scholastic adroitness, might take up the whole academy of modern economists and throttle them between heaven and earth with his finger and thumb, or bray their fungus heads to powder with a lady´s fan." He was still in this caustic mood on that subject when there ensued those two dreadful years, from 1817 to 1819, of which he has left record in his Confessions as having been the time of his most complete intellectual prostration, his indifference to the claims of any subject, consequent upon his first disastrous lapse into absolute besottedness with excess of opium. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.
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