Theories of population from Raleigh to Arthur Young : lectures delivered in the Galtonian laboratory, University of London, under the Newmarch foundation, February 11 to March 18, 1929, with two additional lectures and with references to authorities, / by James Bonar.
- James Bonar
- Date:
- 1931
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Theories of population from Raleigh to Arthur Young : lectures delivered in the Galtonian laboratory, University of London, under the Newmarch foundation, February 11 to March 18, 1929, with two additional lectures and with references to authorities, / by James Bonar. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![All the more are we surprised to find him out of sympathy with the French Economists. Of the Margrave of Baden26 he writes: “The oeconomistes [sic] speak much of an experiment he made in their Physiocratical rubbish, which [experiment], however erroneous their principles might be, marked much merit in the prince.55 What, then, does he think wrong in them? He does not go back to Cantillon, but rather to their other origins, taking them as they looked to him in 1774. He does not seem to have read Cantillon. In the Political Arithmetic he gives a list embracing Quesnay, Mirabeau, Du Pont, Mably, Baudeau, and St. Peravy, but not Cantillon. As “all for agriculture55 was the motto of both Arthur Young and the French Economists, the somewhat bitter censure may illustrate the saying that a man’s foes are those of his own household: “They are my brethren, hence this rage and sorrow.5' Both ask: “If so near, why not wholly on our side?55 But Young did not come over, and he founded no rival sect which they might have exchanged for their own. Young tells the others they got their argument from Locke and Decker, who suppose all taxes to be passed on except those levied on the landlord, who has no one on whom to shift his burden. You, he says, declare that this not only is but ought to be, for the land is the only producer.27 What you would really do would be to “force a man to pay, not because he consumes but because he possesses55.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29931782_0238.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
