W. ofN. Book IV, chap. vu ; vol. II, p

63. W. of N. Book IV, chap. i ; vol. II, p. 8. — Cf. Book II, chap. m ; vol. I, p. 349.— Book IV, chap. v; vol. II, pp. 117-8.— Book IV, chap. vu: vol. II, p. 150. — Book IV, chap. vin; vol. II, p. 238. — Book V, chap. m; vol. II, p. 530. — Book II, chap. m; vol. I, p. 346: The uniform, constant, and uninterrupted effort of every man to better his condition... like the unknown principle of human life, ...frequently restores health and vigour to the constitution, in spite, not only ofthe disease, but of the absurd prescriptions of the doctor.

64. V. les intéressantes observations de Carlyle, Chartism, chap. vi, chap. vu.

65. W. of X. Book IV, Introd. ; vol. II, p. 1. — Stewart publie en 1767se& Principles of Political Economy. Ferguson emploie les expressions de national œconomy et de public œconomy. Paley de même. Benlham dit national economy. Il emploie (Fragment on Government, chap. v, § 12, Bowring,. vol. I, p. 295) une expression de composition analogue: législative economy. — Sur le sens originel du substantif economist, v. Burke, Speech on Economical Beform (Works, vol. III, en particulier p. 281) ; — Ann. Reg. 1770, p. 186 : « The Florentines are esteemed the greatest œconomists of Italy ; this they owe to their pénétration and finesse, and perhaps in some measure to the smallness of their territories, which obliges them to leave no part uncultivated ; — W. ofN., Book III, chap. n ; vol. I, p. 389 : If lie (le grand propriétaire foncier) vvas an economist, he generally found it more profitable to employ bis annual savings in new purchases than in the improvement of his old estate.— Tucker, Dispassionate Thoughts, etc., 1780, p. 30 : The most correct (Economist among our Murmurers, if he looks steadily into himself and hisown Conduct, may find some Irregularities, even in his private Arrangements. — Bentham dira plus tard (Bowring, vol. X, p. 86) : Pinched as I was at this time for money, I had a strange aversion to accounts, coupled with perfect economy... It is not common for non-accounters to be, as I was, rigid economists. — Cf. Meadly, Memoirs of William Paley, p. 69 ; Stephens' life of Tooke, 1807, vol. II, p. 359.