Progr. de VEsp. Humain, !'• époque ; 9 e époque

38. Essay on the spirit and influence of the Reformation, by Vil lers, p. 25, note. — Bans la Revue d'Edimbourg, l'article de juillet 1809, sur la Chine, est malthusien. Dans Commerce Defended, Mill félicite Spence pour ses opinions sur la question de la population. — Quant à Bentham, 11 est encore un malthusien sans le savoir, Scotch Reform, letter II ; Bowring, vol. Y, p. 21 : So redundant is the population of the Inner House fourni 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 scoriae, when once put into this test — so raging the disease, so urgent the pressure, that even Mr. Malthus, -with his inflexibility, and his hitter remedy, might find himself at a loss to cope with it. — Dans la Théorie des Peines, l'expression restreint moral est employée.

39. An Inquiry inlo the Nature and Progress of Rent, and the Principles by whidi il is regulated, 1815, p. 20 — reproduit ap. Principles of Political Economy, chap. m, sect. Il, éd. 1836, p. 153. — Cf. Ricardo à Malthus, 27 mars 1815 :. . . Indeed I see no limit to the fall of the corn value of goods but the impossibility of manufacturing them with any the least return of profit, and this will not happen till the landlord has appropriated to himself in the form of rent nearly the whole Burplus produce of the land. It appears to me that progress of wealth, whilst it increases accumulation, has a naturel tendency to produce this effect and is as certain the principle of gravitation.

40. Lettre de Hume à Adam Smith, l* r avril 1776 : If you were hère at my fireside, I should dispute some of your principles. I cannot think that the rent of farms makes any part of the prine of the prodnce, but that the price is determined altogether by the quantity and the demand.

41. Ânderson, James, Observations on the means of excUing a spirit of National fndustry, chiefiy intended to promote the agriculture, commerce, manufactures and fisheries 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, D, E, etc.), et ne diffère en rien de l'argumentation de Malthus et Ricardo.