Autobiograpliy, pp

22. History of Brilish Indiu, Préface.— Cf. cd. Wilson, vul. I, p. 171 : With regard to the ancient history of India, wearestill not withoutresourccs. The merilorious researches of the modem Europeans, who hâve explored the institutions, the laws, the manners, the laws, occupations and maxims of this ancient people, hâve enabled philosophyto draw the picturc of society, which they hâve presented, through a long révolution of years. We cannot describe the lives of their kings, or the circumstances and results of a train of bat tics. But we can show how they lived together as members of the cominunity, and of families ; how they were arranged in society ; whatarts they practised, what tenets they believcd, what manners they displayed ; under what species of government they cxisted ; and what character, as human beings, they possessed. This is by far the most useful and important part of history; and if it be truc, as an acute and cloquent historian has remarked, « that the sudden, violent, and unprepared révolutions incident to barbarians, are so much guided by caprice, and terminale so often in cruelty, that they disgust us by the uniformityof their appearance, and it is rather fortunate for Ietters that they are buried in silence and oblivion », we hâve perhaps but liltle to regret in tbe total absence of Hindu records.

23. Ricardo à Say, 18 déc. 1817. (Mélanges et correspondance d'économie politique, ... de J.-B. Say, p. 101).

24. (îodwin présente, le 7 oct. 1814, J.-B. Say à Francis Place comme étant « the autlior of a book in French on Political Economy which is, I understand, in ail respects, equal, in some superior to the work of Adam Smith » (Brit. Mus. 35, 152, f. 95). Place apprend à Alill que Say est un ami de Dumont, <r and has read bis translation of Mr. Bcnthanfs work of