ardo 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 _Encyclopaedia 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._
[385] 'Wherever two persons have the means of subsisting,' as he
quaintly observes, 'a marriage invariably takes place' (_Political
Economy_, p. 154).
[386] _Political Economy_, p. 206.
[387] _Political Economy_, p. 344.
[388] _Ibid._ pp. 349-52.
[389] See pamphlet on the rate of wages, pp. 178-204.
[390] Tooke's _Thoughts and Details on the High and Low Prices of the
last Thirty
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