第1章
    对象和科学的起源
    政治经济学是向一个政府重要部门的科学名称。政府的目的是，或者应该是，男性的幸福，团结的社会，它的目的是确保他们的幸福与其性质相一致程度最高的手段，在让尽可能多的同时，个人分享这一幸福。但人是一个复杂的实现，他的经验道义和物质希望，因此他的幸福是他的道德和身体状况组成。人的道德幸福，只要它取决于他的政府，密切与该政府改善有关，它构成了公民的政策对象，它应该传播的自由，知识，道德愉快的影响，并希望，对社会各阶层。公务员政策应当指出的是给予国家宪法的手段，
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    Chapter 1
    Objects and Origins of the Science
    Political economy is the name given to an important division of the science of government. The object of government is, or ought to be, the happiness of men, united in society; it seeks the means of securing to them the highest degree of felicity compatible with their nature, and at the same time of allowing the greatest possible number of individuals to partake in that felicity. But man is a complex bring; he experiences moral and physical wants; therefore his happiness consists in his moral and physical condition. The moral happiness of man, so far as it depends on his government, is intimately connected with the improvement of that government; it forms the object of civil policy, which ought to diffuse the happy influence of liberty, knowledge, virtue, and hope, over all classes of the community. Civil policy should point out the means of giving to nations a constitution,