Note 80 — THOMAS ROBERT MALTHUS. (continued 2)
Reading edition
Probably the passage in Book II, ch. v, quoted by Ricardo in Pol. Econ. ch. ii (on Rent), p. 39 foot (McCulloch's ed. of Works). It contains the Physiocratic paradox that in manufactures nature does nothing, man does all; in agriculture nature does nearly all and man very little.