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47. Destutt de Tracy, Éléments d'idéologie, Traité de la Volonté et de ses Effets, chap. 1v.

48. Principles, preface, p. 6 : ... who has succeeded in placing the science in a more logical and more instructive order. — Cf. Westminster Review, vol. I, p. 525 : Say, — one of the few French writers who never sacrifices truth to display, — who is never led astray from the path of reason, by sentimentality, or by a taste.for floridity and declamation, — Say, who first introduced the French nation to the true principles of political economy, and whose name will be mentioned with honour among the philosophers who have raised that important branch of knowledge to the rank of a science.

19. 3. B. Say, Trailé d'économie politique, discours préliminaire. 20. Speranski à Dumont,10 oct. 1804. Bowring, vol. X, p. 416. 21. Autobiography, pp. 23-24.

22, History of British India, Preface. — Cf. ed. Wilson, vol. I, p.171: With regard to the ancient history of India, we are still not without resources. The meritorious researches of the modern Europeans, who have explored the institutions, the laws, the manners, the laws, occupations and maxims of this ancient people, have enabled philosophy to draw the picture of society, which they have presented, through a long revolution of years. We cannot describe the lives of their kings, or the circumstances and results of a train of batles. But we can show how they lived together as members of the community, and of families ; how they were arranged in society ; what arts they practised, what tenets they believed, what man:

ners they displayed; under what species of government they existed ; and what character, as human beings, they possessed. This is by far the most useful and important part of history; and if it be true, as an acute and eloquent historian has remarked, « that the sudden, violent, and unprepared revolutions incident to barbarians, are so much guided by caprice, and terminate so often in cruelty, that they disgust us by the uniformity of their appearance, and it is rather fortunate for letters that they are buried in silence and oblivion », we have perhaps but little to regret-in the total absence of Hindu records.

23. Ricardo à Say, 18 déc. 1817. (Mélanges et correspondance d'économie politique,... de J.-B. Say, p. 101).