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[342] _Letters to Malthus_, p. 226.
[343] _Works_, p. 58 (ch. v.).
[344] _Ibid._ p. 211 _n._ (ch. xxvi.).
[345] _Ibid._ p. 258 (ch. xxxii.).
[346] _Works_, p. 248 (ch. xxii.).
[347] Bain's _James Mill_, p. 211.
[348] Editions in 1821, 1824, and 1826.
[349] _Autobiography_, p. 204.
[350] The first edition, an expanded version of an article in the
_Encyclopædia Britannica_, appeared in 1825.
[351] _Latter-day Pamphlets_ (New Downing Street). M'Crowdy is
obviously a type, not an individual.
[352] See Mr. Hewin's life of him in _Dictionary of National
Biography_.
[353] Fourth edition in 1827.
[354] Ricardo's _Works_, p. 164 _n._
[355] _External Corn-trade_, preface to fourth edition. J. S. Mill
observes in his chapter upon 'International Trade' that Torrens was
the earliest expounder of the doctrine afterwards worked out by
Ricardo and Mill himself. For Ricardo's opinion of Torrens, see
_Letters to Trower_, p. 39.
[356] _Production of Wealth_ (Preface).
[357] _Production of Wealth_ (Preface).
[358] _Political Economy_ (1825), p. 21.
[359] _External Corn-trade_, pp. xviii, 109, 139; _Production of
Wealth_, p. 375.
[360] Originally in the _Encyclopædia Metropolitana_, 1836.
[361] Senior's _Political Economy_ (1850), p. 26.
[362] _Ibid._ (1825), pp. 55, 129-131.
[363] Senior's _Political Economy_ (150), p. 125.
[364] _Ibid._ p. 135. M'Culloch admits the possibility that a man may
judge his own interests wrongly, but thinks that this will not happen
in one case out of twenty (_Ibid._ p. 15).
[365] See Torrens's _Production of Wealth_, p. 208; and M'Culloch's
_Political Economy_ (1843), p. 294, where he admits some exceptions.
[366] _External Corn-trade_, p. 87, etc.
[367] _Political Economy_ (second edition), pp. 21, 22.
[368] _Ibid._ p. 67.
[369] _Political Economy_ (1825), p. 329.
[370] _Production of Wealth_, p. 34, etc.
[371] _Political Economy_ (1825), p. 318.
[372] Mill's _Political Economy_ (second edition), p. 102; M'Culloch's
_Political Economy_ (1825), pp. 289-291.
[373] M'Culloch's _Political Economy_, p. 290.
[374] Preface to _External Corn-trade_.
[375] _Ibid._ p. 95.
[376] _Political Economy_ (1825), pp. 313-18. This argument disappears
in later editions.
[377] _Ibid._ p. 217.
[378] _Political Economy_, p. 221. De Quincey makes a great point of
this doctrine, of which it is not worth while to examine the meaning.
[379] _Political Economy_, p. 221 _n._
[380] _Ibid._ p. 336.
[381] _Ibid._ p. 337.
[382] 'Essay upon the Circumstances which determine the Rate of Wages'
(1826), p. 113. This was written for Constable's _Miscellany_, and is
mainly repetition from the _Political Economy_. It was republished,
with alterations, in 1851.
[383] _Political Economy_, pp. 359-61.
[384] _Ibid._ (1843), p. 178. And see his remarks on the unfavourable
side of the Factory System, p. 186 _seq._