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Unto this Last: Four Essays on the First Principles of Political Economy Essay I - The Roots of Honour
In which the author contemplates the profound inadequacy of political economy when it dismisses the social affections that animate human labour, revealing how true work flourishes not by mechanical pressure but through bonds of justice, kindness, and affection between master and servant. This reflection progresses to a noble vision of commerce as a vocation demanding self-sacrifice and paternal care, where the merchant’s highest duty is to uphold faith, purity, and the welfare of those employed, thus ennobling trade with the same honour due to soldiers, physicians, and clergymen.
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