[609]. London, 1832; Birmingham, 1833. The Constituent Assembly applied the same measure, but in a different way, in 1791. See Roscher, National-ökon. (1879), p. 298.
[610]. The words are, “enable the labourers to maintain a stationary or an increasing population” (Pol. Econ., 1836, p. 218). The awkwardness of the sentence may be due to bad editing; but we read elsewhere of the “price of wages.”
[611]. Pol. Econ., 1836, pp. 218, 223.
[612]. See Lassalle and Marx.
[613]. Cf. Malthus, Pol. Econ. (1836), pp. 224, 225, &c. Essay on Population, 7th ed., III viii. 323, but especially IV. xiii. 473. See also Rogers, Six Centuries, ch. viii., ‘The Famine and the Plague,’ especially pp. 233–242.
[614]. Malthus, Essay on Pop., IV. xiii. 473; cf. pp. 373 and 434.
[615]. Cf. especially Essay on Pop. (2nd ed.), III. ix. 444. “The price of labour has been rising—not to fall again.”
[616]. Emigr. Comm. (1827), p. 326, qu. 3411; cf. 3408, 3409. Cf. above, p. 197.
[617]. The chief of them being the rate of profits which is at the given time enough to induce the “undertaker” (or “enterpriser”) to continue business.
[618]. See Mill on Thornton’s ‘Labour,’ Fortnightly Review, May 1869. Cf. Walker on The Wages Question, pp. 140 seq.