...of government. In free countries where the safety of government depends very much upon the favorable judgment which the people may form of its conduct,...benefit of more knowledge and intelligence in the laboring classes, says Say, it must dispense it at the public charge. This object may lie obtained...

...free countries, when the safety of government depends very much upon the favourable judgement which people may form of its conduct, it must surely be...disposed to judge rashly or capriciously concerning it.'1 1 Wealth of Nations, Bk. V, chap- 1, pt. iii, art. 2. But Adam Smith does not, like Turgot, advocate...