[22] A mathematical law of frequent occurrence, but very little
understood in Political Economy.
[23] One of the indirect objects of this work is to combat modern
sentimental schools, who, in spite of facts, refuse to admit that
suffering to any extent enters into the designs of Providence. As
these schools are said to proceed from Rousseau, I must here cite
to them a passage from their master: “The evil which we see is not
absolute evil; and far from being directly antagonistic to the good,
it concurs with it in the universal harmony.”
[24] The term ‹consumption› employed by English Economists, the
French Economists translate by ‹consommation›.—«Translator.»