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It was a familiar idea for the Enlightenment that wealth has "causes" which ought to be
studied scientifically and that scientific knowledge is itself a cause of wealth.
 
Consider the following stanzas from Mark Akenside's "Hymn to Science", 1739 
(caps are mine): 
 
Give me to learn each secret cause; 
Let number's, figure's, motion's laws 
Reveal'd before me stand; 
These to great Nature's scenes apply, 
And round the globe, and thro' the sky, 
Disclose her working hand. 
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Then downwards take thy flight agen; 
Mix with the policies of men, 
And social nature's ties: 
The plan, the genius of each state, 
Its interest and its pow'rs relate, 
Its fortunes and its rise. 
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OF WEALTH, pow'r, freedom, thou! THE CAUSE; 
Foundress of order, cities, laws, 
Of arts inventress, thou! 
Without thee what were human kind? 
How vast their wants, their thoughts how blind! 
Their joys how mean! how few! 
 
Yuri Tulupenko 
 
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