Chapter LII: Section LI: The Same Subject Continued

The greater number of recent writers(329) have, therefore, come to be of the opinion that every useful business which ministers to the whole people’s requirement of external goods possesses economic productiveness.(330) But it makes a great difference to science, whether a view is considered true because no one has suggested a doubt of its correctness, or because all doubts as to its truth have been triumphantly removed.