[70]. Essay, 1st ed., p. 387.
[71]. See below, Book I. ch. v.
[72]. Ibid. p. 356 note.
[73]. l. c. He is ready with a similar excuse in the tract on the Measure of Value, p. 61. Where there is no will there is no way.
[74]. Part II. sect. ii. pp. 204–6.
[75]. MacCulloch (J. R.), editor of the Commercial Dictionary, and probably the original of Carlyle’s Macrowdy. No one could have a proper reverence for the Fathers of Political Economy who perpetually referred to the greatest of them without his distinctive prænomen.
[76]. Introduction to W. of N., p. lii. So the writer of Progress and Poverty tells us “the doctrine of Malthus did not originally and does not necessarily involve the idea of progression” (Bk. II. ch. i. p. 89, ed. 1881).
[77]. Bagehot (Econ. Studies, p. 136 seq.), W. R. Greg (Enigmas of Life), and Held (Sociale Geschichte Englands) may be acquitted, but they are not writers of text-books.
[78]. Wealth of Nations, Introduction, p. lii.
[79]. See e. g. the tract on the Measure of Value, p. 23, and cf. Pol. Ec. (2nd ed.), p. 234.