Thus, although the population of England has only increased from 1844 to 1890 by 62 per
cent, its production has grown, to say the least, at double that rate — to wit, by 130 per cent. In
France, where the population has grown more slowly, the increase in production is nevertheless
very rapid. Notwithstanding the crises through which agriculture is frequently passing, notwithstanding State interference, the blood-tax (conscription), and speculative commerce and finance,
the production of wheat in France has increased fourfold, and industrial production more than
tenfold, in the course of the last eighty years. In the United States the progress is still more striking. In spite of immigration, or rather precisely because of the influx of surplus European labour,
the United States have multiplied their wealth tenfold.
