...pressure of population on the means of subsistence which has led men to cultivate inferior soils, hut the fact that these soils being cultivated in another...which that increased population could have existed 1 To make increased population the cause of improved agriculture is to commit the absurd blunder of...

...population became possible. How could an increased population have stimulated greater labour jx V1 0 in agriculture, when agriculture must have supplied...means' ^ on which that increased population could have existed69 ? To make increased population the cause of improved agriculture is to commit the absurd...

...cultivated in another way, or taken into! cultivation, an increased population became possible. Howl could an increased population have stimulated greater...which that increased population could have existed e9 ? To make increased population the cause of improved agriculture is to commit the absurd blunder...

...suhstitutc for this teaching, whilst he is only endorsing it. 1 (f. linkers' Pnlttifnl Emnmni/. \i. 70. population has not preceded but followed this occupation...the absurd blunder of confounding cause and effect." This statement, however, appears to err on the other extreme. Even at the present time, in Scotland...

...frequently experienced in determining which of two phenomena or events is cause and which is effect. ' There is not a shadow of evidence in support of the...which that increased population could have existed 70 ? To make increased population the cause of improved agriculture is to commit the absurd blunder...

...Professor Rogers's " Manual of Political Economy." " There is not a shadow of evidence," says Rogers, " in support of the statement that inferior lands have...the absurd blunder of confounding cause and effect." * A fallacy may be called a gap in a process of reasoning, and it may be said in a sense that all refuthe...