Letter to Stephan Bauer, April 10, 1895

Author(s) Friedrich Engels
Written 10 April 1895


First published in: Marx and Engels, Works, First Russian Edition, Vol. XXIX, 1946
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 50

ENGELS TO STEPHAN BAUER[1]

IN BRNO

London, 10 April 1895
41 Regent's Park Road, N. W.

Dear Sir,

May I say how very grateful I am to you for so kindly sending me the facsimile of Quesnay's Tableau as well as your monograph on it[2] which I am just reading with much interest. You are right to stress the point that, after Baudeau, no one understood this important piece of work on political economy until Marx who was, in fact, the first to raise the physiocrats from the obscurity whither they had been consigned by the subsequent successes of the English school. Should it be granted me to edit Book IV of Capital as well, you will find there a further, more exhaustive tribute to the services rendered by Quesnay and his pupils.[3]

I am, Sir,

Yours very truly,

F. Engels

  1. ↑ Bauer, Stephan (1865-1934)—German economist and statistician; an editor of the Zeitschrift für Social- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte, professor of the High Technical School in Brunn (Brno); later emigrated to Switzerland. (MECW)
  2. ↑ S. Bauer, 'Zur Entstehung der Physiokratie. Auf Grund ungedruckter Schriften François Quesnays', In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik. 21 Bd., 1890, S. 113 158
  3. ↑ See present edition, Vol. 31, pp. 204 40 and Vol. 34, pp. 195 96, 289 90.