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90. Graham Wallas, pp. 81-82 : Bentham à Place, 24 avril 1831 : Dur good Boy. — I hâve made an appointment for you ; andyou mnst absolutely keep it, or make another. It is to see Prentice, and hear him exprès bis regrets for calling you a bold bad man... 1 said you ^ere a bold nun, but dcnied your being a had one, judging from near twenty years* intimacy. 1 asked him why he called you a bad man ; his answer was becaose of the pains you had laken to disseminate your anti-over-population (I should bave said your over- population stopping) expédient. The case is, he is juggical; Calvinistic; is dcscended from two parsonical grandfathers of considérable notoriety. — Sur Tantimalthusianisme du benthamite Archibald Prentice, v. Historical skeiches... of Manchester, pp. 118-119.- En 1823, un essai de propagande néo-malthusienne fait scandale, et les soupçons se portent aussitôt sur les « radicaux philosophiques. » Roebuck et John Mill devront se défendre plus tard d'en avoir été les auteoR (Holyoake, SLrty years of an agitator's life, vol. I, pp. 126 sqq.). — En 1834, la a Society for the Promotion of Useful Knowledge », à tendances ultra-libérales, refuse le concours de Place en raison de son néo-malthusianisme.

91. Got^ernment, p. 4. — Cf. Hisl. of Brit. Jnd., Book II, chap. n (éd. "Wilson, vol. I, pp. 177-178) : « When subsistence, by the muiplication of consumers, can no longer be obtained without considérable labour, the désire to encroach upon one another adds extremely to the occasions of discord : and the evils and miseries which prevail, excite al last a désire for a better régulation of their common affairs ». — Cf. Benlham-Grote,

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Rdigùm Naturelle (part. II, chap. ii), sur « la portée sans limite des désirs humains et le nombre très limité des objets propres à les satisfaire » ; — et WeslnUnsier RevieWj n* II, avril 1824, art. VI : Landor^s Imaginary ConvenoHonêf vol. I, p. 435 : So long as there is a limited supply of the good things of this lîfe, and an unlimited demand, there must be in government a conflict or contrariety of interests.