[500]. It was popular enough to reach a 3rd edition in 1815.
[501]. See Grounds of an Opinion, &c., p. 2.
[502]. Observations, pp. 20–1.
[503]. Ibid., p. 17.
[504]. The English price in Nov. 1884.
[505]. Observations, pp. 19, 22, 23, 27.
[506]. Ibid., p. 28. If the Ricardian hypothesis is not true of individuals, it is still less true of Governments, as Cobden experienced.
[507]. Ibid., pp. 30, 31.
[508]. Ibid., p. 32: “Many of the questions both in morals and politics seem to be of the nature of the problems de maximis et minimis in fluxions; in which there is always a point where a certain effect is the greatest, while on either side of this point it gradually diminishes.”
[509]. Cf. even Observations, pp. 5, 12, 13.