In pointing out misery as the necessary
condition of industrial and commercial absolutism, M. Rossi seems
to say to us: There is your law, your justice, your political
economy; there is property.
But Gallic simplicity does not understand artifice; and it would
have been better to have said to France, in her immaculate
tongue: The error of Malthus, the radical vice of political
economy, consists, in general terms, in affirming as a definitive
state a transitory condition,-- namely, the division of society
into patricians and proletaires; and, particularly, in saying
that in an organized, and consequently solidaire, society, there
may be some who possess, labor, and consume, while others have
neither possession, nor labor, nor bread. Finally Malthus, or
political economy, reasons erroneously when seeing in the faculty
of indefinite reproduction--which the human race enjoys in
neither greater nor less degree than all animal and vegetable
species--a permanent danger of famine; whereas it is only
necessary to show the necessity, and consequently the existence,
of a law of equilibrium between population and production.
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