Thoughis and Détails, vol. Vil, p. 3'i

25. Reproduit dans le Traité des Récompenses, l'iweW, chap. xi, pp. 304- 305. — Trail écrivait à Bcnthani, le 26 février 1787 (Bowring, vol. X, p. 172 1 : a Tiie st;ite of the poor laws bas excited a good deal of alleiition. Gilbert, who has uiiderlaken to reforia them, is utterly incai)ablc ; but the information he lias been enabled by the législature t« coUecI, may be useful to wiser lieads. — Cf. Introduction, Bowring, vol I, p. 103 : By ojjences against population, such offences whereof the tendeiiey is lo diminish liie nnmbers or impair the political value of the suni total of themembers of the community. — Et plus haut p. 102 : \Vilh regard to the sources or funds fi'oni whence tiiese instruments, howsoever applied (the instruments whicirgovernment, whetlier in the averting ofevil or in the producting of positive good, can hM\e to work witlij musl l.r d. i i\ed, such of them as come under tlie dénomination of persons nnist be taken out of the whole numberof persons thaï arc in the community. that is,

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out of tlie total population of tlie state ; so tlial tlie greater tlie puiuilation tlie greater may cœteris parihus \ni this branch of tlie public wcalth: and the les?, tlie less. Mss. Univ. Col. no. 17 (Polilical Economy). Dans un l'ragment de 1794, Bentham, dans un « encrease of the quantityof wealth », entre celui qui est absolu, et celui qui est relatif f relative in comparison of population-opulence.