INTRODUCTION.

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(^pital  and  labour  from  the  production  of  necessaries  ;  hence
the  destitution  of  the  masses.  “  Were  there  no  luxury,”  said
Rousseau,  “there  would  be  no  poor.”  “The  fact  that  many
men  are  occupied  in  making  clothes  for  one  individual,  is  the
cause  of  there  being  many  people  without  clothes  ”  *
Supported  by  the  rent  theory  as  set  forth  by  economic
science,  Socialists  reproach  the  actual  system  with  having
poured  into  the  hands  of  the  landowners  all  the  advantage
accruing  from  social  improvement,  in  violation  of  the  principle
generally  admitted,  that  labour  is  the  source  of  property.  Here
again,  they  could  cite  the  opinion  of  J.  S.  Mill,  for  he  asks
does  not  result  from  the
shnnM  K  Owner—the  unearned  increment,  as  he  calls  it—
should  be  handed  over  to  the  State
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*  Montesquieu,  Esp.  des  Lois,  vii.  6.