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which be speaks higlily » (f. 97 17 eut. 1814). - Le 24 nov. (f. 110), Mill fait à Say, par l'intermédiaire de Place, les propositions suivantes : o He could be prevailed upon to pay Mr. Ricardo a visit (though at tlie distance of Gloucester shire) as the man the iuost profoundly versant botli in the theory and practice of political economy. But I hâve another treat for him, and, if he be a man whose (sic : with a?) passion for science, the highest treat he can raeet with in this country — and that is a sight of Mr. Bcnthain who is by far undoubtedly the first philosopher in existence. If he will pay Mr. Ricardo a visit — who will treat him like a lord — I shall be able I think to prevail upon Mr. R. to accompany him hither where Mr. Benthaoi will be glad or rather extremely desirous to sce them both, and where they may stay one or two, or as many daysas they please.

— With the first édition of Mr. Say's book I bave been well acquainted since its first appearance in this country. — It is an admirable production.

— As an elementary book it is superior to Adam Smith's because the arrangement is much improved and the principles are statcd most compleatly.

— In several important particulars amongst whicb was the subject of money he throws most valuable light upon the subject and evinc'd not only the judgment which could appreciate what had been discovered before him but the ^.enius which could advance and improve the science. — Après des difficultés (V. encore If. 105, 111, 117, 118), Say part pour Gatcomb le 7 déc. — James Mill écrit à Place, le 31 déc. (f. 127) : W'c were highly gratified with lus visit and hope that he was also pleased with us — indeed from liis manner I have little doubt that he was.... He hasleft his address with both Ricardo and with us, and begs that we may establish a correspondent which to us will be highly agreeable. — Of his intellect, his book is a voucher — but he bears also strong marks of being a good man, a man of truth and sincerity, a rare praise for a Frenchman, and an honest lover of freedomand détester of its opposite where ver they are to be found. »

— De son côté, Place, le 15 janvier 1815 (f. 128), rend compte à Mill des impressions th* J.-B. Say : He spoke with raptureof you ail, Mr. Bcntham's Philosophy, and, as Mr. Say expressed it, « his heart full of benevolence in every tliing » made his eyes sparklcas he pronounced the words. — You and Mr. Ricardo are, hesays, piofoundei'onomists, from both of you hesays he has learned much that will be useful.... His last words were o tell my friends in Devonshire that I shall endeavour to préserve their good opinions by being as frec from ail kinds of préjudices National, Religions, and Political as they are ». Cf, Ricardo à Maillais. 18 déc. 1814 (Bonar, p. 51.).

25. Commerce Defeiuied; An Answer to the Arguments by which Mr. Speuce, Mr. Cohbet, and others haveattempted to prove that Commerce ls not a source of National Woalth, 180*.

26. James Mill à son tour enseigne la théorie à Rie irdo qui, jusqu'à la visite de J.-B. Say, semble en avoir ignoré l'origine. V. Ricardo à Malthus 16 sept. 1814 : Mr. Mill's idea... — 2:Joct. 1814 : The theory of Mr. Mill. —

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V. au contraire Principes, p. 6, et les lettres à Trower du 26 sept. 1830 et du 3 oct. 1820. — Ajoutons que Mac Culloch a découvert (Pol. Ec., pp. 192-3) des précurseurs anglais de cette théorie : Querie$on the Naturalisation Bill, par Tueker, 1752 ; Sketch oftJie Adtwtce and Décline of Nations, p. 82, 1795.

27. Ed. Rev. janv. 1809 (vol. XIII, p. 310> : It is a matter of indignation, that any thing in the shape of a ministry, or a législature, should need the démonstration to be repeated to them (for démonstration it is, complète as any in Euclid) of the elementary proposition, that monopolies are disadvantageous.