An American Merchant in Europe, Asia and Australia: A Series of Letters From Java, Singapore, China, Bengal, Egypt, and the Holy Land Etc (Classic Reprint)

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Commercial Literature is a new term. I have sought to make it acknowledged. It seems to have been thought that the only books for a merchant to read or to write, were those formidable rows of ponderous ledgers, dealing only in the inexorable logic of arithmetic, to which learning was a stranger, within whose lids a gleam of fancy or of humor dare not intrude, and which summed up the subjects and results of commerce, in the uninviting rhetoric of figures. But Commerce no longer lingers around its ancient haunts. It now pervades the world. The merchant lays his hand upon the entire products of the globe, in all the changing forms, to which human industry and ingenuity may transmute them. Agriculture says to him, "Behold the varied results of my industry in different climes, it is yours to make them useful to the nations." The Manufacturer asks him to carry and distribute the products of the loom. Whatever is valuable to man, calls on the merchant for help.

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