...Eighteenth-Century England ( Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1982). 5. Expounded in chap. 22, "Of the Dignity of Trade in England More than in Other Countries," of Daniel Defoe's The Complete English Tradesman [1726] (Gloucester: Alan Sutton, 1987), this belief...

...their high distinctions in life." He then devoted to the subject a further chapter entitled explicitly "Of the Dignity of Trade in England more than in other Countries." "Besides the benefit which we reap by being a trading nation," he wrote, "which is our principle jjlory,...