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Quotation from A Discourse on Political Economy by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“How could a human body subsist if it had veins and no arteries”

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (spoken by Rousseau)

A Discourse on Political Economy, Third rule (taxes on land), trans. G. D. H. Cole (1913)

Rousseau's physiological image for money drained from the countryside to the capital without returning to the farmer.

Citation: "How could a human body subsist if it had veins and no arteries" — Jean-Jacques Rousseau, A Discourse on Political Economy, Third rule (taxes on land), trans. G. D. H. Cole (1913). (id rousseau-discourse-on-political-economy-q9)

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