Note 36 — I HISTORICAL

‘There is a principle in human society by which population is perpetually kept down to the level of the means of subsistence,’ said Godwin in 1798 (Political Justice, Bk. VIII, p. 518). Many similar remarks are to be found in the writings of the Physiocrats. See, for instance, Turgot, Sur le Commerce, section 7, and Quesnay, Analyse du Tableau Économique, chs. xxv and xxvi.