Note 255-7 — Chapter III

Lettres, etc. de Colbert, éd. Clément, II, 68, 120. Voltaire, Siècle de Louis XIV. ch. 29, bitterly complains of this; and also Berkeley, Works, II, 187, and Forbonnais, Finances de France, I, 391. On the other hand, Ferguson, Hist, of Civil Society, III, 4, asks: what fuel can the statesman add to the fires of youth? Similarly, Franklin, Observations, etc. It should not be forgotten that the taxes necessary to supply the so-called marriage-fund, intended to enable poor couples to marry at the expense of the state, make marriage more difficult for other couples. (Krug, Staats-Oek., 31.)