Quotation of the Day…

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… is from page 87 of Samuel Gregg’s forthcoming book, The Civilization of Commerce:

The focus of commercial civilization is on the long term rather than on the immediate. Commercial society makes no promise of immediate well-being to anyone. Its operating claim is that by allowing many invisible hands to work unimpeded by excessive regulation and intervention, the result will be incremental, steady, and generally lasting improvements that slowly but surely increase people’s well-being in economic terms and continually release the energies of which Hume spoke into other sectors of society.