New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-09-16

useless a. make any attempt al improving their coad
ten for such i the lar. made for Us b. the Creator
snd not by us.-To this the American school replies.
No the aet il directly the reverse and ii So the de-
ductiops must also be tie reverse. Men never have
comu encci with rich soils In all countries they have
begun with the poor ones and they have done - be-
/ cause they could not do otherwise They DO 80 now,
in sl tie new countries of the world and instead Of
constant dimiuuon in the suPPyOf food resulting from
reeessi'y cf cuvatrg poor soils. there is constant
increase therein, resulting from the power to clear and
cultivate richer ones-Our readers will now see that
what has been needed has been the settlement OF tie
qEestien al fact whether men iii or did not commence
with the poor Soils and that is rejoice to al
nitted in ore Of the latest the numbers of this jour
nal that hiss reached our hands
Tie lesdnc article of thai number is from the pen Of
NJ Ctertuiez Professor of Political Economy, aud, as
We learn distinguished member OF the Pcli,ico-Eco-
romical Society OF France. LIS SUBJECTS Rent anil its
object that of slowing that the Ricardo theory is true.
even though it he admitted that men did not commence
with rich soil We take from it the following passage,
in which viii be that he admits that the theorys
certainly opposed to many Well known facts, even not
TO the whole mass of them:
The error Of Ricardo-whchis nowhere more arienty
susIsiped then in the works OF his disciples Mill and
NCCullOch-has been that ~ establishing relation of
caussy between facts which might be concomitan, and
might not be and which in al cases sire perfectly indie
pendent If each other 20 wit The commencement OF me
pay 1T rent and the necessity under which men md
h6mselve with view TO satisfy the increasing demsnt
food Of plying their labor 20 lands OF decreasing Ter
tliiy Grpying further capital with diminished r-
urn IN those already cultivated. Thai which IS
rational and true in his theory has found itself most
orturacy connected with this hypothesis Of series of
0g u;urS ostioEs becoming constantly more unprO-
ductive-an hypothesis which by is disagreement not
with the whole Of fat az east with many notorious
ones has become for many emil ghtened men stumbling
block In their Ve and for the atversarcs OF the whOo
theory most COW oniens weapon Mr. Oarey ns Muen
a whole volume demonstrate that the work Of cu,iva-
ton always commences the less fertile soils u was
great labor for the accomplishment of small end ip
1851
This is certainly somewhat cool For forty wears this
necessity iorresortng to inferior soils has been thrown
in the teeth of all who have felt disposed to doubt the
truth of the RcardoMalthusian theory, and now, when
it is completely dsproved by the establishment Of tho
fact that men have never done what the philosophers
have assumed them to have done are told that it is
small work to have accomplished. We are willing,
however 10 accept the admission Of the fact even
such terms.
Our space will not permit Ms 10 lay before our read
ers the mode in which NJ Cherbuoz endeayors to prop
up the theory after having thus permitted the demoli-
ton of its whole foundation aud will therefore
" say thar il is series OF reasonngs upon an imagn-
airy state Of things and is therefore worthy Of the Ri
cardo-MaltLusian School which always substitutes by
potheses or facts and that il ends in leading is author
into precisely the same difficulty from which he had
tried to extrcate Ricardo.
! I'm the same number we find an interesting account
of sitting OF the Academy of Sciences, at which Lord
Broucham. Messrs Passy. Guizot, Leon Faucher, and
ether distinguished members discussed the Mahusian
theory Of population, and manifested almost uniSer-
sal tendency toward its repuda,ion. From the report
! of the speech of VI Passy, We take the following
passage;
1t il in the progress Of human inlg cnco that wo fluid
the eounerpoise Of the nconycnences attached TO tho
owih Of Iol ulaiion That progress enables man 20 10
pfly biz labor thar Il becomes steadily more ana more
yioducye and it, fruits increase sufficiently 10 permit
hnt Notwithstanding The incrCase Of numbsr The qaen
" faing 10 each steadily Increases W Nlcrmo has ctei
he inn row me ns In milling grain and Il would be- casyto
cite variety # others that haye been accom-
lsEed To make new diseOseros aud 10 apply ihei ana
draw thanks to the Improvement OF his modes 81
thought steadily increasing reward Tor The exercise OK
j. power IS the destiny OF His intellectual constl
ui.on imper him effort aud ignorance Is dspeed 10
advance and little by little surnounts the oacs wnch
ITose themselves to his progress toward the hapme.
he bound 10 realize OF those obstacles some are found
in the resistance Of the material world Ia hrs abos whha
others are found In the imperte cOns OF biz own nature
but both the and the other yield 20 the superior power
Il intellect and vaBly thus far, has man multiplied Tor
The wealth he has created has become abundant
successive generations have 20 occupy the soil al
ready occupied In that fact it is that we fad the history
OF civilization
This total reputation of the doctrines of Ricardo
and MsltLus 40 food could not become more abundant
had men been forced 10 resort to soils Of constantly de-
cresspc fertility a. Mil McCulloch and other writer's
of the English School assure has uniformly been the
care The closing speech in the debate was that oil
NJ Leon Faucher in which be made the following
| judcious remarks:
Political economy Is science Of obsers alton or us
nothing The principles Il prOclaims deduccd rom
facts Of which they the general expression inc
law Wclll that II what is deficient in the doctrine Of
Nshu. His system rests much less facts than on by
rothcses Atwhat time and ia what country has popua
lion increased IN geometrcal retiO, while food has IN
crcnstd IN arihnetca one IL u not true that pOpua
nu nf reeres aster than food for better fei.
better clothed and better lodged an they have been IN
any time par While looking ~ the power 70 produce we
must measure also the obstacles to increase II Maihas
desired peak Of abstract tendency b multiplication
IN the human species that never maniiests tsef
theory does call for the attention Of science. III
he hss pretended fnd in the facts the tendency he pro
Clsn, say that the facts are against him u j. not ~
he book that must look for the Law u populations and
this bead subscribe to the very judicou- obseryaons
| ilei NJ Passy has presented tO the Society.
Here, in the OF Ricardo il Is admitted That
the facts and tie theory opposite to each other
and here there effort. 10 prop Up part Of the
.,stem While abandoning il foundation TO the mercyOs
tie winds and the waves. The great question 10 be
etted is however in both cases, that Of fact and in
9th Nautilus and Ricardo are totally abandoned
In tie remarks that made on the opposite sde'
here manifested scarcely any tendency TO uphold
he theory that has 20 long prevailed alm0s: unqae''
iCned and that has been regarded a settled point ID
eience. We have rarely secn 70 complete 40 aoan-
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