Re: quick question

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

Eubulides wrote:
>
> Right but the dictionary entry is saying 1873. I'm reading a review of
> Heckscher's book [it's Tuesday and I don't have a tv :-)] and I'm asking
> in an historiographical and nominalist sense.......
>

OED Online gives first date as 1838. But I can't find their bibliography
of sources so I don't know what kind of asource they took the quote
from. New Moral World 22 Dec. 142/2. I don't have the foggiest idea what
the New Moral World was. For mercantile system the earliest source
given, as Michael says, is Smith.

Carrol