[430]. Edin. Review, July 1808, the only review in that journal assigned to him by express testimony.
[431]. 3rd Report of Emigration Committee (1827), Evid., qu. 3225.
[432]. In the article on Newenham he incidentally utters the paradox that in view of the low standard of food the people’s indolence is almost an advantage, for it prevents wages falling quite down to that level.—Art. p. 341. Cf. Essay, IV. xi. 456–7. For his view of potatoes in Ireland, ibid., 453.
[433]. Cf. Review of Newenham, p. 352.
[434]. Cf. Rogers, Six Centuries of Work and Wages (1884), p. 484.
[435]. In a sense already frequently noticed. So in answer 3401, where he seems to accept the phrase “moral degradation” as applied to Ireland.
[436]. Cf. above, pp. 95 and 195 n. Professor Rogers must have forgotten such passages as these when he wrote the 62nd and 63rd pages of his Six Centuries of Work and Wages (1884), though he furnishes his own correction on a following page (484).
[437]. Wealth of Nations, V. iii. 430, 1, 2.
[438]. Sir Wm. Petty made it 1,100,000 in 1672. See MacCulloch, Append. to Wealth of Nations, (IV.) 462.
[439]. See Sir H. Parnell’s evidence in 3rd Report to Emigration Committee, 1827, p. 200. He thinks that between 1792 and 1821 the population of Ireland had doubled itself.