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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.