ur, comme tous les autres, est de
creation humaine et social."--p. 362. After reciting the various modes
of applying labor to the improvement of land, he says: "La valeur c'est
incorporee, confondue dans le sol, et c'est pourquoi on poura tres bien
dire par metonymie: _le sol vaut_."--(p. 363.)

Land not changeable for as much labor as it has cost. "J'ose affirmer
qu'il n'est pas un champ en France qui _vaille_ ce qu'il a coute, qui
puisse s'echanger contre autant de travail qu'il en a exige pour etre
mis a l'etat de productivite ou il se trouve."--(p. 398.)

_Cause of this._--"Vous avez employee mille journees a mettre votre
domaine dans l'etat ou il est; je ne vous en restituerai que huit cents,
et ma raison est qu'avec huit cents journees je puis faire aujourd'hui
sur la terre a cote ce qu'avec mille vous avez fait autrefois sur la
votre. Veuillez considerer que depuis quinze ans l'art de dessecher, de
detricher, de batir, de creuser des puits, de disposer les etables,
d'executer les transports a fait des progres. Chaque resultat donne
exige moins du travail, et je ne veux me soumettre a vous donner dix de
ce que je puis avoir pour huit, d'autant que le prix du ble a diminue
dans la proportion de ce progres, que ne profite ni a vous ni a moi,
mais a l'humanite tout entiere."--(p. 368.)

The reader who may desire to see the perfect correspondence of these
views with those published by Mr. Carey, as far back as 1837, may do so
by a glance at Chapters II., III., IV., and VII. of his first volume,
where he gives a great number of facts in support of ideas then so new,
and of course so heretical.

A remarkable fact, to which we now desire to call the attention of our
readers, is, that which M. Bastiat has thus adopted the views of Mr.
Carey, without, so far as we have been able to see, alteration or
addition. His name never occurs in the work, except as authority for one
of his quotations, which M. Bastiat has copied, while the names of
Ricardo, Malthus, Senior, Scrope, Considerant, and a host of others, are
found in almost every chapter. It must be highly gratifying to Mr. Carey
to see his views obtain so entirely the approbation of a man of the
reputation of M. Bastiat, that he should be willing to give them to the
world as his own.

[28] Vol. I., p. 339.

[29] This work has been much read abroad, and we perceive that it has
recently been translated into Swedish, and published at Stockholm.

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