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25. Reproduit dans le Traité des Rét.vm penses, livre IV, chap. xi, pp. 304- 305. — Trail écrivait à Bentham, le 26 février 1787 (Bowring, vol. X, p. 172) : a The s ta te of the poor laws bas excited a good deal of attention. Gilbert, who has undertaken to refonn them, is utterly incapable ; but the information lie has been enabled by the législature to collect, may be useful to wiser heads. — Cf. Introduction, Rowring, vol I, p. 103 : By offences ugninst population, such offences whereof the tendency is to diminish the numbers or impair the political value of the sum total of the memlxTS of the commun ity. — Et plus haut p. 102 : With regard to the sources or funds from whence thèse instruments, howsoever applied (the instruments which government, whether in the averting of evil or in the producting of positive good, can hâve to work withj must be derived, such of them as corne under the dénomination of persans must be taken oui of the whole nuinberof persons that are in the community, that is,

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out of the total population of the state ; so that tho greater the population tlie greater may cœteiis paribus be this branch of the public wealth ; and the les?, tho less. Mss. Univ. Col. no. 17 (Political Econoray). Dans un fragment de 1794, Ben t ha m, dans un a encrease of the quantityof wealth », entre celui qui est absolu, et celui qui est relatif {relative in comjxirison of population-opulence.