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50. V. William Thompson, an Inquiry, etc. : The productive labourers strîpt of ail capital, of tools, houses and materials to make their labour productive, toil from want, from the necessity of existence, their rémunération being kept at the lowest compatible with the existence of industrious habits. — Thomas Hodgskin, Labour defended against the daims of capital, by a labourer, 1825 ; p. 6 : The labourers do only receive, and ever bave only received, as much as will subsist them, the landlords receive the surplus produce of the more fertile soils, and ail the rest of the whole produce of labour in this and in every country, goes to the capitalist under the name of profit for the use of his capital. — V. encore William Thompson, Labour rewarded, 1827.

51. Principles, pp. 235 sqq. — Le 25 juin 1821, Ricardo soumet au PolUical Economy Club la question : Whether Machinery bas a tendency to diminish the demand for labour? — Deux fois ajournée en raison de Tabsence de Ricardo, elle finit par être discutée le 4 février 1822, sans grands résultats (Ricardo à MacCulloch, 8 février 1822).

52. Ricardo à MacCulloch, 18 juin 1821 : ... as demonstrable as any in the Science of Political Economy... as plain as any proposition in geometry ...as demonstrable as any ot the truths of geometry.