CHAPTEE  VIII
 

               CONCLUDING REMARKS



            The Doctrine of Population.



It is no part of my purpose in this work to attempt

to trace out, with any approach to completeness, the

results of the theory given in the preceding chapters.

When the views  of the nature of Value, and the

general method of treating the subject by the appli¬

cation of the fluxional calculus, have  received  some

recognition  and acceptance, it will  be  time to think

of results.  I shall therefore only occupy a few more

pages in  pointing  out the branches of economic doc¬

trine which  have been passed over, and in  indicating

their connection with the theory.

   The doctrine of population has been conspicuously

absent, not because I doubt in the least its  truth and

vast importance, but because it forms no part of the

direct problem of Economics.  I do not remember to

have seen it remarked that it  is an inversion of the

problem to treat labour as a varying quantity, when

we originally start with labour as the first element of