Excerpt from Safeguarding the Future of Private Business Business morality is higher today than it ever has been in the world's history. The trader of antiquity was a scalper who worked behind the legal maxim, Let the buyer beware In the mer cantile business of today, that doctrine has disappeared. Vendors exercise a very high degree of good faith toward buy ers, and extensive warranties of goods sold are implied where not expressed. The growth of these implied warranties in sales measures fairly well the rate and degree Of advance in mercantile honor.2 safeguarding the future. 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.