Note A2-3-4 — Chapter III
John J. (John Joseph) Lalor translation
It is as necessary that every nation should constitute a separate commercial body as that it should be a separate political and juridical body. The person who asks: why should I not have commodities in all the perfection in which they are made in foreign countries? might as well ask: why am I not completely a foreigner? (Fichte, Geschloss. Handelstaat, 1800: Werke, III, 476, 411.) Ad. Müller compares universal freedom of trade to a universal empire, which will ever remain a chimera. (Elemente der Staatskunst, 1809, I, 283.)