H^. ofN. Book IV, chap. vu ; vol. Il, p

63. TV. of N. Book IV, chap. i ; vol. II, p. 6. — Cf. Book II, chap. m : .1K>1. 1,.p. 349. — Book IV^ohap. v; vol. H, pp. 117-8. — Book lY, chap. vu: vol. Il, p. 160. — Book IV, chap. viii; vol. II, p. 238. — Book V, chap. lu; vol. II, p. 530.— Book II, chap. m; vol. I, p. 346: Tlieuniform,c<MisUat, aad uninterrupled efort of every man to hettcr liis coodition... Uke tlie unkiiown principle of human life, ...frequently restores health and vigour tu tlie constitution, in spite, not only of tho disease, but of theabsoid prasariptions ai the doctor.

64. V. les intéressantes observations de Carîyle, CharHsm, «hap. n, Chap. VII.

65. W. ofN. Book IV, Introd. ; vol. II, p. 1. — Stewart publie en 1767 ses Principle$ ofPoiUical Economy. Ferguson emploie les expressions de natiO' nal œœnomy et de public aconomy. Paley de même. Bentham dit national tœnomy. Il emploie {Fragment on Government, chap. v, § 12, Bowriog, vol. 1, p. 295) une expression de composition analogue: legiskUive economy. — Sur le sens originel du substantif ecor/omis^, v. Burke, Speech on Economical Reform (H'orAvî, vol. III, en particulier p. 281) ; — Ann. Reg. 1770. p. 186 : <r Tlie Florentines are esteemed the grealest œconomists of Italy; this they owe to their pénétration and finesse, and pcrhaps in some measure to thesiuallnessof Iheir territories, whicli obliges thcm to leave no part unoultivated ; — W. ofN., Book III, chap. ii ; vol. I, p. 389 : If lie (le grand propriétaire foncier) was an cconoruist, he generally found it more prolitable to cmploy liis annual savings in new purchases t han in the improveinenl of his old estale.— Tucker, ffispassionate ThougliiSy etc., 1780, p. 30 : The most cori*ect (Kcouoinist among our Murnuirers, if he looks steadily into himself and hisuwn Gonduct, may ûnd some Irregularitics, even in his private Arraogcnients. — Bentham dira plus tard (Bowring, vol. X, p. 86) : Pinehed as I was at this time for money, I had a strange aversion to accounts, cou pied with perfect economy... It is not corn mon for non-accounters lo be, as I was, rigid cconomists. — Cf. Meadly, Memoirs of William Paley, p. 69; StephensW//"e o/" TooAe, 1807, vol. II, p. 359.