Note 28 — Chapter II · CAUSES OF THE AMERICAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE AND THE QUEBEC ACT
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The above, however, was not Adam Smith’s view. In the chapter ‘Of the Advantages which Europe has derived from the Discovery of America, &c. &c.’ he writes, ‘The late war was altogether a colony quarrel, and the whole expense of it, in whatever part of the world it may have been laid out, whether in Germany or the East Indies, ought justly to be stated to the account of the colonies.’