Charles Davenant wrote: "Perhaps Trade in General may have been hurtful to Mankind, because it has introduced Luxury and Avarice; and it might be better with us, if we still liv’d in the Innocence and plainness of our Fore-fathers. But the circumstance of Time, and the Posture other Nations are in, may make things absolutely necessary, which are not good in their own Nature. War is the occasion of Cruelty, Wickedness, and Injustice, yet an unwarlike Nation can enjoy no safety."

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