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[417] Chalmers holds that the Ricardian doctrine of rent inverts the
true order. Fertile lands do not pay rent because poor lands are
brought into cultivation, but poor lands are cultivated because
fertile lands pay rent. He apparently wishes, like Malthus, to regard
rent as a blessing, not a curse. The point is not worth arguing. See
_Works_, xix. 320.
[418] _Works_, xix. 304-5.
[419] _Ibid._ xix. 370.
[420] _Ibid._ xix. 366.
[421] _Ibid._ xix. 322.
[422] _Works_, xx. 247, 296.
[423] _Ibid._ xx. 290.
[424] _Works_, xix. 380.
[425] The copy of Malthus's second edition with Coleridge's notes used
by Southey is in the British Museum.
[426] See Southey's _Political_.
[427] _Thoughts occasioned by Dr. Parr's Spital Sermon._ A copy
annotated by Coleridge is in the British Museum.
[428] _Thoughts_, etc., pp. 56, 61, 62.
[429] _Ibid._ p. 71.
[430] Lines added to Goldsmith's _Traveller_.
[431] _Reply to the Essay on Population_, etc., 1807. The book was
anonymous. The first three letters had appeared in Cobbett's
_Register_. Two others with an appendix are added.
[432] Bentham's _Works_, x. 603, 604; and _Dictionary of National
Biography_.
[433] See _Dictionary of National Biography_.
[434] Hazlitt's _Reply_, p. 19.
[435] _Ibid._ pp. 139-41.
[436] _Ibid._ p. 117.
[437] _Reply_, p. 263.
[438] _Ibid._ p. 344.
[439] _Ibid._ p. 284.
[440] _Ibid._ p. 287.
[441] _Reply_, p. 351.
[442] _Ibid._ pp. 362-64.
[443] _Ibid._ p. 352.
[444] Ensor's _Enquiry_, p. 294.
[445] _Ibid._ p. 441.
[446] _Godwin on Population_, p. 506.
[447] _Ibid._ p. 553.
[448] _Ibid._ p. 558.
[449] Godwin, p. 219.
[450] See account of him reprinted from Mackenzie's _History of
Newcastle_ and _Dictionary of National Biography_.
[451] Reprinted by Mr. Hyndman in 1822, with a preface.
[452] See _Dictionary of National Biography_. Hall's book was
reprinted by J. M. Morgan in the 'Phoenix Library,' 1850. See Anton
Menger's _Das Recht auf den vollen Arbeitsertrag_ (second edition,
1891), for notices of Hall, Thompson, and others.
[453] _Effects of Civilisation_ (1850), p. 86.
[454] _Ibid._ p. 71.
[455] _Ibid._ p. 115.
[456] _Autobiography_, p. 125. See Holyoake's _History of
Co-operation_, i. 16, 109, 278-83, 348, for some interesting notices
of Thompson. Menger (_Recht auf den vollen Arbeitsertrag_, p. 100
_n._) holds that Thompson not only anticipated but inspired Marx:
Rodbertus, he says, drew chiefly upon St. Simon and Proudhon.
[457] _An Inquiry into the Principles of the Distribution of Wealth
most conducive to Human Happiness; applied to the Newly Proposed
System of Voluntary Equality of Wealth._--1824.
[458] _Distribution of Wealth_, p. 327.
[459] _Distribution of Wealth_, p. 167, etc.
[460] _Ibid._ p. 310.
[461] He wrote, as J. S. Mill observes, an _Appeal_ [1825] against
James Mill's views on this matter--a fact which no doubt commended him
to the son.
[462] _Distribution of Wealth_, pp. 425, 535, etc.
[463] _Labour Defended_, p. 16.