[330]. Essay, 7th ed., p. 189.
[331]. Cf. Fyffe, Mod. Europe, i. 124.
[332]. Essay, 7th ed., p. 189.
[333]. A characteristic utilitarian touch. 2nd ed., p. 295, top; 7th ed., p. 183.
[334]. Ibid.
[335]. 2nd ed., p. 294; 7th ed., p. 183.
[336]. Essay, 7th ed., p. 320 (III. vii.).
[337]. Levasseur, France avec ses Colonies (1875), p. 842. According to Anderson, Chron. Ded., Vol. III. p. xliii, some said twenty, others seventeen. But Mr. Kitchin cites Vauban to show that there had been a decline in population from fifteen to thirteen millions between the beginning of the war of Succession and the end of it (1702, 1713).—History of France, vol. iii. p. 342. Cf. Fox Bourne’s Life of Locke, i. p. 350; Vauban’s Dîme Royale, pp. 162–3.
[338]. Josiah Tucker, Essay on Trade (3rd ed., 1753), p. 14. There may be rhetorical exaggeration in his statements. “The subordination of the common people is an unspeakable advantage to the French in respect to trade. By this means the manufacturers [workmen] are always kept industrious. They dare not run into debauchery; to drunkenness they are not inclined. They are [practically by the law of military service] obliged to enter into the married state, whereby they raise up large families to labour, and keep down the price of it; and consequently, by working cheaper, enable the merchant to sell the cheaper.”
[339]. Wealth of Nations, IV. iii. pp. 220–1.