Word: inexactly
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Dates: during 1883-1883
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...mainly a refutation of the theories of Messrs. H. C. Carey, Bastrat and Bouillet. The trouble with Mr. Carey, Gen. Walker said, was that in attempting to refute Ricardo's law, he confused this law with the law of populations; his criticisms were, in fact, "rank with inexact science and unhistoric history." Respecting the law laid down by Carey that poor and high land is universally settled and cultivated first, Gen. Walker said this if true could readily be explained from the fact that the necessities of life demanded that the new settler should reap his crops as soon...