[413] Works, xix. 75.
[414] Ibid. xix. 118-47.
[415] Ibid. xix. 343.
[416] See Ibid. xix. 171. J. S. Mill speaks of Chalmers's speculations with a respect which it is difficult to understand.
[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.