The Collected Works of Dugald Stewart: Lectures on political economy ... To which is prefixed part third of the Outlines of moral philosophy. 1855.56

"Written by me:

2d, An Account of the Life and Writings of Dugald Stewart, together with all his Correspondence. Among others, with Madame de Staël, La Fayette, Jefferson, and many other literary and well-known characters, French and English; with Anecdotes from his Journals kept during his residence in Paris, before and at the commencement of the Revolution, and during his visits to that city with Lord Lauderdale, during the Fox Administration. All of which I burnt."

The other nine works (some of them very voluminous) written by Colonel Stewart, and by him destroyed, it is unnecessary articulately to specify. Mr. Foss, in a note, observes,— "I believe there was no foundation for Colonel Stewart's suspicions respecting his locks having been picked." This conjecture, I have no doubt, is correct; and should it seem strange that a man of Colonel Stewart's ability and filial veneration should, on so groundless a suspicion, have been actuated to so rash a proceeding; we may perhaps find an explanation in the circumstance, that when on professional service in India, he had suffered from an attack of coup-de-soleil; a malady which, I believe, often manifests its influence in the most capricious manner, and long after an apparent disappearance of the affection.

It is therefore to be understood, that the Lectures on Political Economy do not appear as the Course was, by the Author, prepared for publication. Parts, indeed, as finally completed, seem by accident to have escaped the fate of the other emended Lectures and revised additions, such as the Introduction to the Course, and the Notes upon the Bullion Report, (Vol. I.) But these shew only as exceptions, although it is not improbable that other portions, as the Lectures upon the Theory and Forms of Government (Vol. II.) are now nearly in

the state in which they were left for publication by the Author. On this, however, not being able to speak with certainty, I prefer silence to conjecture, and leave the reader to his own surmises in regard to the extent and importance of the loss.

And here, the subjoined abstract by Miss Stewart, of the Contents of seven volumes, in quarto, of her father's manuscripts,— volumes in which the corrected and amplified Lectures were fairly transcribed,—may enable the reader to form an opinion of how much has perished, compared with what has been preserved and printed from the older copies. It is, perhaps, hardly necessary to warn him, that in this Table the distinction of volume is altogether an arbitrary division, being determined by the extent of room which the paper of each happened to supply. In general, also, the list is printed as it was found written, though some changes might seem occasionally to be obvious. (In reference to the prefixes within square brackets, see p. xvi.)

[*?] Introduction to a Course of Elementary Lectures on

Of Population,

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Of Population as it is affected by the State of Manners, &c.,

Of Population as it is affected by Plenty or Scarcity, &c.,

Of Agriculture, Manufactures, and Population, considered in

Relation to each other,

I. State of the Actual Cultivators of the Soil,

(VOL. II.)

(Continuation of the Lectures on Population.)

Comparative Advantages of Small and of Great Farms,
Policy of Enclosures,

II. Of Agriculture and Population, as they are affected by
the Distribution of Landed Property,

III. Of Agriculture and Population, in Connexion with the

influence of Manufactures,

Appendix to Article III.,

What are the Effects with respect to Population of the Sub-
stitution in Manufactures of Machinery in place of
Human Labour?-(For continuation of this Lecture,
see p. 172,)

(Former part of this Lecture, see p. 104.)

National Wealth,

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IV. Of the relative Value of Money and of Commodities,

Continuation,.

V. Of the Real and Nominal Prices of Commodities,

VI. Of Interest,

(New Chapter, see p. ),
Appendix-Containing an Abridgment of some Chapters of

fundamental importance in The Wealth of Nations,
with a few occasional Remarks.-(A Fragment?)

Of the Component Parts of the Price of Commodities, .

Of the Natural and Market Price of Commodities,

Part ii. Of the Produce of Land, which sometimes does, and
sometimes does not, affect Rent,

(Heads of an additional Lecture to be inserted after those on
the Economical System,)

(VOL. IV.)

(The First Lecture has no title; but it seems to be on the

Practical Doctrines of the Mercantile or Commercial

System of Political Economy,)

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Of the Expediency of Anti-usurious Laws,

i. Of the Inland Corn Trade,

Extract of a Letter to Mr. Stewart from Francis Horner, Esq.,
dated 6th April 1805, .

ii. Of the Trade carried on by the Merchant Importer of
Grain for Home Consumption,

(VOL. V.)

iii. Of the Trade carried on by the Merchant Exporter of
Grain for Foreign Consumption,

iv.—

Miscellaneous Observations on the Corn Trade,

Appendix to the Lectures on the Corn Trade; quotation from

the Edinburgh Review, July 1807,

Quotation from the Monthly Review, 1822, .

Of the Commerce of Land, (Primogeniture,)

Appendix,

111

Note from M. Garnier's Translation of the Wealth of Nations,

115

Laws relating to the Poor,

125

History of the Poor-Laws in England,

128

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Conclusion of Lectures on the Laws relating to the Poor,

(VOL. VI.)

Of the Education of the People, .

Appendix,.

[*] Essay on the Probable Effects of the Progress of Science,
and of the Diffusion of Knowledge on the future
Fortunes of the Human Race, (intended to form the
concluding Chapter of my Dissertation prefixed to the
Encyclopædia; [and accordingly in this edition so
arranged.])-