The Collected Works of Dugald Stewart

"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

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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.,

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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,