It becomes, therefore, an important question whether our attention to these two is in due proportion to their comparative worth. We have business with both worlds but our stake in the one is slight, in the other all but infinite. He declines to examine these reports, because he does not like the subject and to keep his mind free from painful reflections he throws himself with redoubled energy into his huckstering, and exults over the halfpence of profit which each transaction produces. In the meantime rumours are rife that in one foreign market prices had suddenly fallen before his goods arrived that in another his agents had sold his cargo and absconded and that in a third direction an investment, not insured, had been lost at sea. A merchant, embarked in an extensive foreign trade, has fallen into the habit of doing a good deal of petty business at home on which the profit is small but it is near, and therefore occupies time out of all proportion to its worth. The text raises a question on points which, in mercantile phraseology, would be designated-ฤก. I am debtor both to the Greeks and to the Barbarians.
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