sentences:  Later the text was espoused by supporters of free trade and republicanism throughout Europe, for whom it remained a source of inspiration until the end of the eighteenth century.It is hard to overestimate the profound influence of the "Interest van Holland" on the European and American political elites of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries as can be seen from numerous examples.The book was read and used by politicians as diverse as Jean-Baptiste Colbert, James Madison and Turgot.