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industry, that he might be enabled to obtain them. Not only would all the food now produced be obtained, but a vast additional value in those other commodities to the production of which the now unemployed labour of the country might be directed.

This is replaced, in the third edition, by these sentences:—

And then, in all editions, the argument thus runs on:—

The passage quoted by Professor Marshall is that beginning with 'The friends of humanity,' and ending with 'the evils of famine.' But, on comparing the two texts, though it will be recognised that it is just possible that in the later Ricardo may have intended to soften his teaching, and have thrust in a sentence without any regard to the argument of the page, it would seem much more probable that the later version is only another way of stating the earlier. He had been distinguishing between 'rich' and 'poor' countries: for the latter, but not for the former, the remedy for distress is to induce the people to be more industrious. In the first edition he had cited as examples