[15] Even Bentham said this of James Mill (Bain’s Life of J. M., p. 461), of whom it was hardly true.
[16] “Principles of Political Economy,” last edition, 1865, p. 477 (quoting from Feugueray.)
[17] Referred to in a celebrated passage by Adam Smith, “Wealth of Nations,” book 1, chap. viii.
[18] Not to mention the restrictions imposed by the law of “Settlement” (13 and 14 Charles II., chap. 12), which enabled two justices summarily to send back to his village any migrating laborer.
[19] This was noticed by Malthus, “Principles of Political Economy,” p. 225; see also Prof. Thorold Rogers, “History of Agriculture and Prices,” and “Six Centuries of Work and Wages.”
[20] Further detail will be found in the following essay. See also Arnold Toynbee’s “Industrial Revolution.”
[21] Between 1801-1845 the population of Manchester grew 109 per cent, Glasgow 108 per cent, Liverpool 100 per cent, and Leeds 99 per cent (Report of Commissioners on State of Health of Large Towns, 1843-45).
[22] W. J. Lecky, “History of the Eighteenth Century,” vol. v, p. 453.
[23] The number of registered electors at the date of the last Election (1886) was 5,707,823, out of an adult male population of over nine millions.
[24] Few, however, of Mr. Spencer’s followers appear to realize that he presupposes Land Nationalization as the necessary condition of an Individualist community (see “Social Statics,” passim).