All that remains now is to demonstrate the truth and the goodness of my maxims by applying them particularly to all the professions that contribute to the state’s wealth and to all the goods that support and increase it. At the same time, I will observe the good and bad uses that one makes or can make of the goods, with the steps that the prince or the government can and must take on different occasions to prevent certain disturbances that disrupt the proportion that leads to an increase in the state’s wealth. After which, (430) it will be easy to see that the utility the prince derives for himself from the fortunate situation of his states is infallible and that his revenues will increase very considerably provided that he wishes to levy taxes in the same way that he obliges individuals to behave in getting rich.
But because I want to make public this first sample of my thoughts and do not have the time to add the rest, I must save it for another occasion when I will speak more specifically of farmers, artisans, merchants, commerce, public credit, money, a public fund, taxes, state debts, and generally anything that may deserve the attention of a prince (431) who would like to make his subjects happy, that is to say, get rich, but I will only be applying the principles that I have just established in this volume. (432)
_The End_
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