text:  "It would seem astonishing and even incredible to men who argue only theoretically that though year after year the same uniform causes operate and produce exactly the same effects yet that this aspect of the market should continue to delude and mislead the public mind but so it is in the corn-market and with the British public in general; for though they see through a long succession of years that wheat and flour invariably rise in the market immediately after harvest and during seed-time and though they ought to understand that this rise is produced by the quantity required for seed and by the busy occupation of the farmers they still perversely attribute it to another cause existing only in their own apprehensions namely that the recent harvest has been deficient and that the market is ill supplied because there is an insufficient stock with which to supply it