[299] Ibid. p. 386.
[300] See also Letters to Malthus, p. 175.
[301] 'Your modern political economists say that it is a principle in their science that all things find their level; which I deny, and say, on the contrary, that it is the true principle that all things are finding their level, like water in a storm.'—Coleridge's Table-Talk, 17th May 1833.
[302] Letters to Malthus, p. 96; and see the frequently quoted passage where he complains that Malthus has taken his book as more 'practical' than he had intended it to be, and speaks of his method of imagining 'strong cases.'—Ibid. p. 167.
[303] Works, p. 40 n. (ch. ii.).
[304] Works, p. 53 (ch. v.), and p. 124 (ch. xvi.), where he quotes from the Wealth of Nations (M'Culloch), p. 390 (bk. v. ch. ii. art. 3).
[305] Works, p. 131.
[306] Wealth of Nations (M'Culloch), p. 31 (bk. i. ch. viii.).
[307] Works, p. 41 (ch. ii.).
[308] Wealth of Nations (M'Culloch), p. 36.