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Updated: May 5, 2025
They persuade their followers, among whom are many ignorant consumers, that this vestigial remnant of the old Pragam policy is all that keeps the nation from being desolated by small-pox and an epidemic of broken legs. It is impossible within these limits to give a full history of the strange delusion whose origin I have related.
They took back with them all manner of Tortirran products and nobody thought of questioning the mutual advantages of the exchange. But early in the present century a powerful Tortirran demagogue named Pragam began to persuade the people that commerce was piracy that true prosperity consisted in consumption of domestic products and abstention from foreign.
This extraordinary heresy soon gathered such head that Pragam was appointed Regent and invested with almost dictatorial powers.
A reaction set in, a powerful opposition to Pragam and his policy was organized, and he was driven from power. But the noxious tree that Pragam had planted in the fair garden of his country's prosperity had struck root too deeply to be altogether eradicated.
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