...with two variables. First stage: "The friends of humanity," he writes in Chapter 5 of the Principles, "cannot but wish that in all countries the labouring...all legal means in their exertions to procure them" (my italics). This passage, incidentally, probably escaped the notice of the free trade-advocating...

...exchanged for bread with neighboring countries: "The friends of humanity cannot but wish that in all the countries the labouring classes should have a taste for comforts and enjoyments, and that they would be stimulated by all legal means in their exertions to produce them."47 If the population is...

...That Ricardo would also have subscribed to this analysis is clear from his famous pronouncement that 'the friends of humanity cannot but wish that in all...classes should have a taste for comforts and enjoyments . . . There cannot be a better security against a superabundant population' (Ricardo, 1951, 100). The...

...criticising Paley. 5 It also treated as fact what Ricardo had expressed as hope when he said that: 'The friends of humanity cannot but wish that in all...better security against a superabundant population.' 57 Senior believed, however, that the tendency he had observed opened up the prospect of subsistence...

...starvation for infants than because there is a direct advantage in being comfortable. Ricardo said "the friends of humanity cannot but wish that in all...should have a taste for comforts and enjoyments," not apparently because comforts and enjoyments are good in themselves, but because "there cannot be...

...of the law of diminishing returns, all classes would become equally poor.1 Thus the only remedy is that in all countries the labouring classes should...for comforts and enjoyments, and that they should he stimulated by all legal means in their exertions to procure them,2 However, 'in the natural advance...

...anxious to improve the condition of the wage-earning classes. " The friends of humanity," he writes, "cannot but wish that in all countries the labouring...all legal means in their exertions to procure them." Nor could the enthusiasm of Mill for the advancement of society b' doubted, while C limes in his Slave...

...discussion of Ireland in later editions, the substance remained unchanged. He inserted his oft-cited idea: "The friends of humanity cannot but wish that in all...classes should have a taste for comforts and enjoyments" (ibid., 1:100). This version, which is often used as evidence of Ricardo's humanitarianism, merely...

...other hand, opens the door for programs designed to achieve distributive justice when he declares that "the labouring classes should have a taste for comforts...stimulated by all legal means in their exertions to procure t/iem." 202 Ricardo's primary occupation was not with amelioration but with providing a clearer exposition...

...beneficial effect of prompting him to refrain from producing still more laborers. Thus, Ricardo writes, "the friends of humanity cannot but wish that in all...to procure them. There cannot be a better security again a superabundant population" (PPE57). Significantly, Ricardo does not elaborate upon what "legal...