[21] “Integral Co-operation at Work,” A. K. Owen (U.S. Book Co., 150 Worth St., N.Y.).
[22] I may, perhaps, state as showing how in the search for truth men’s minds run in the same channels, and as, possibly, some additional argument for the soundness of the proposals thus combined, that, till I had got far on with my project, I had not seen either the proposals of Professor Marshall or of Wakefield (beyond a very short reference to the latter in J. S. Mill’s “Elements of Political Economy”), nor had I seen the work of Buckingham, which, published nearly fifty years ago, seems to have attracted but little attention.
[23] Though Mr. Herbert Spencer, as if to rebuke his own theory that State control is inherently bad, says, “Political speculation which sets out with the assumption that the State has in all cases the same nature must end in profoundly erroneous conclusions.”
[24] “Justice,” Chap. xi., p. 85.
[25] Buckingham’s scheme is set forth in a work entitled “National Evils and Practical Remedies,” published by Peter Jackson, St. Martins le Grand, about 1849.
[26] I hope it is not ungrateful in one who has derived much inspiration from “Progress and Poverty” to write thus.
[27] Clifford’s “History of Private Bill Legislation” (Butterworth, 1883), Introduction, p. 88.
[28] See, for instance, the opening chapter of “The Heart of Midlothian” (Sir Walter Scott).
[29] The chief reason for this is that agricultural land as compared with city land is of vastly larger quantity.
[30] It is scarcely necessary to give instances of what is meant; but one that occurs to my mind is that this assumption of the continued growth of London forms one of the fundamental premises of the Report of the Royal Commission on Metropolitan Water Supply, 1893. On the contrary, it is satisfactory to note that Mr. H. G. Wells has recently entirely changed his views as to the future growth of London (see “Anticipations,” chap. ii. ). Read also “The Distribution of Industry,” by P. W. Wilson, in “the Heart of the Empire” (Fisher Unwin), and Paper by Mr. W. L. Madgen, M.I.E.E., on “Industrial Redistribution,” Society of Arts Journal, February, 1902. See also note on page [31].