Excerpt from The Industrial Revolution: Being the Parts Entitled Parliamentary Colbertism and Laissez Faire; Reprinted From the Growth of English Industry and Commerce in Modern Times 214. Possible Sources of Revenue. The fiscal system of the country had been reconstituted during the Interregnum; and proposals were now made to render it more equable and fruitful, by developing the excise, though this was objected to both on economic and political grounds. Walpole's fiscal reforms were intended to foster industry and commerce, so that he might be able to dispense with the land tax; but the agitation they roused rendered his schemes impracticable. 424. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.