...a bare level of subsistence but a progressive standard of comfort determined wages, and as to this: "The friends of humanity cannot but wish that in all...stimulated by all legal means in their exertions to procure them."63 In much the same way, the formalism of the wage-fund doctrine was distorted, by minor text-writers...

...a bare level of subsistence but a progressive standard of comfort determined wages, and as to this: "The friends of humanity cannot but wish that in all...enjoyments, and that they should be stimulated by nil le^al means in their exertions to procure them."** In much the same way, the formalism of the wage-fund...

...permanent, and their deteriorated condition will become a new minimum 1 It may be well to quote his words. "The friends of humanity cannot but wish that in all countries the labouring classes should hare n taste for comforts and enjoyments, and that they should be stimulated by all legal means in...

...different countries. It essentially depends on the habits and customs of the people." And again he remarks, "The friends of humanity cannot but wish that in all...all legal means in their exertions to procure them." The effects of the standard of comfort on the movement of population are of course not immediate ;...

...part of workingmen. Ricardo has somewhere 1 Ellwood, op. cit., p. 126. ' Ibid., pp. 148 f. put it that "the friends of humanity cannot but wish that in all countries the laboring classes should have a taste for comforts and enjoyments, and that they should be stimulated...

...the same, could increase only by curtailing profits — meaning the rate of profit ; and (2) that " the friends of humanity cannot but wish that in all...better security against a superabundant population." Barring the later discovery of prudential checks, we have here the whole economic truth, and that philanthropically...

...sufficient effort to lift themselves out of it. The well known opinion of Ricardo still holds good : " The friends of humanity cannot but wish that in all countries the laboring classes should have engendered in them in some way a taste for comfort and enjoyment that...

...interests, and, what is still more to the point, which are perpetually in motion. — Arnold Toynbee. The friends of humanity cannot but wish that in all...better security against a super-abundant population. — Ricardo. Respectable Professors of the Dismal Science, soft you a little. Alas ! I know what you...

...quote his words. "The friends of humanity cannot but wish that in ull countries the labouring clauses should have a taste for comforts and enjoyments, and...them. There cannot be a better security against a superabimdant population. In those countries, where the labouring classes have the fewest wants, and...

...English cottage would have been thought luxuries at an earlier period of our history.' Again, he says, " The friends of humanity cannot but wish that in all...better security against a superabundant population. lu those countries where the labouring classes have the fewest wants, and are contented with the cheapest...