Commerce, Demand for
God gave different resources worldwide to unite nations through commerce and stimulate human effort.
The Almighty has given to one land the fruits of Caves, and to another mineral wealth, to the tropical regions the sugar-cane and the coffee-tree, to Italy the silk-worm and the vine, to China the tea-plant, to the frozen north its huge cetaceans and costly furs, that all the nations of the earth might be united by the bonds of commerce, and the intellectual powers of man roused to exertion by the stimulus of want and the love of gain. Hartwig.