Progr. de FE&p. Humain, l rr époque ; 9 e époque

38. Essay on the spirit and influence of tlie Rcfornuttion, by Villers, p. 25, note. — Dans la Revue d'Edimboury, l'article de juillet 1809,

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sur la Chine, est malthusien. Dan? Commerce Defended, Mill félicite Spence pour ses opinions sur la question de la population. — Quant à Bentham, il est encore un malthusien sans le savoir, Scotch lleform, letter II; Bowring, vol. V, p. 21 : So redundant is the population of the Inner House found to be, when once any principle of reason or expérience cornes to be applied to it — so large the proportion of the mass that runs into seoriae, when once put into this test — so raging the discase, so urgent the pressure, that even Mr. Malthus, with liis inflcxibility, and his bit ter remedy, might find himself at a loss to cope wilh it. — Dans la Théorie des Peines, l'expression restreint moral est employée.

39. An Inquiry into the Nature and Progress of Rent, and the Principle* by which it i$ regitlated, 1815, p. 20 — reproduit ap. Principes of Politieal Evonomy, chap. m, sect. II, éd. 1836, p. 153.— Cf. Kirardo à Malthus, 27 mars 1815 :. . . Indeed I sep no limit to the fall of the corn value of goods but the ini|Hissibility of manufacturai ng them with any the least return of profit, and this will not happen till the landlord lias appropriated to himsclf in the form of rent nearly the whole surplus produce of the land. It appears to me that progress of wealth, whilstitincroascs accumulation, lias a natural tendency to produce this rffeet and is as certain the principle of gravitation.

40. Lettre dr Hume à Adam Smith, I er avril 1770: ïf you were hère at my fireside, I should dispute some of your principles. I cannot think tliat the rent of farms makes any part of the price of the produce, but that the price is determined altogether by tlie quantity and the demand.

41. Anderson, James, Observations on the means of cxciling a spirit of National Industry: chiefly intended topromote the agriculture, commerce, manufactures and iishfTurs of Scotland, 1777, p. 45 note. La démonstration est très rigoureuse, très claire < soit quatre catégories de terres, offrant divers degrés de fertilité, A, B, C, 1), E, etc.i, et ne diffère en rien de l'argumentation de Maltiius et Hicardo.