Theories of population from Raleigh to Arthur Young : lectures delivered in the Galtonian laboratory, University of London, under the Newmarch foundation, February 11 to March 18, 1929, with two additional lectures and with references to authorities, / by James Bonar.
- James Bonar
- Date:
- 1931
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Theories of population from Raleigh to Arthur Young : lectures delivered in the Galtonian laboratory, University of London, under the Newmarch foundation, February 11 to March 18, 1929, with two additional lectures and with references to authorities, / by James Bonar. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![in which there is a limit fixed to the value of the land that may be held by private persons. Harring¬ ton would fix this upper limit at £2,000 a year which happens to be the figure of our supertax (1928) at its lower limit, and £2,000 meant very much more in 1656 than in 1928. It does not seem a very irksome limit; but Harrington is no “Leveller55 or Communist, he would not even have novae tabulae, a general remis¬ sion of debts, the old “slogan55 of a Revolutionist, he thinks his own plan better than an equal division, which (he says) amongst other drawbacks leaves no employers. £2,000 is the limit for England; but in Scot¬ land only £500. Scotland is a poorer country, and the great drawback there is the nobility; “the people are little better than the cattle13 of the nobility.55 “In the matter of your auxiliaries55, he says, addressing the Englishmen who remem¬ bered the help rendered by the Scottish army a few years before, “Scotland will be of greatei revenue to you than if you had the Indies. For whereas heretofore she has brought you foi th nothing but her native thistle, ploughing out the rankness of her aristocracy by your Agrarian [law], you will find her an inexhaustible magazine of men, and to her advantage.55 Ireland is to be colonized with Jews, wTho are to be invited to make it their Land of Promise, and are to have full use of all their customs, and full possession of their land farmed out to them and](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29931782_0052.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
