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I have followed Mr. George through all his reasonings, Sophistries, and illustrations, and have exposed fallacy after fallacy, with a frequency that is monotonous, and for which I beg the reader's kind indulgence.
In treating the Malthusian theory, I did not acquiesce in it, but merely exposed Mr. George's fallacious reasoning and called attention to his contradictory statements.
In treating of rent, I have exposed many fallacies, but, perhaps, no greater one than that labor and capital engaged in manufactures will turn to agriculture, if the return be greater in the latter than in the former, by showing the impossibility of using the capital employed in manu factures - consisting of mills, machinery, and the like - in agriculture. Indeed, one of the most fruitful sources of error is the hypothesis that capital and labor may change at pleasure from one industry to another. Theoretically they may practically they cannot.
So, too, the theory of the margin of cultivation is only a fiction. Mr. George merely follows Ricardo and others, and they, in turn, followed vulgar beliefs. I have shown that.
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I have followed Mr. George through all his reasonings, Sophistries, and illustrations, and have exposed fallacy after fallacy, with a frequency that is monotonous, and for which I beg the reader's kind indulgence.
In treating the Malthusian theory, I did not acquiesce in it, but merely exposed Mr. George's fallacious reasoning and called attention to his contradictory statements.
In treating of rent, I have exposed many fallacies, but, perhaps, no greater one than that labor and capital engaged in manufactures will turn to agriculture, if the return be greater in the latter than in the former, by showing the impossibility of using the capital employed in manu factures - consisting of mills, machinery, and the like - in agriculture. Indeed, one of the most fruitful sources of error is the hypothesis that capital and labor may change at pleasure from one industry to another. Theoretically they may practically they cannot.
So, too, the theory of the margin of cultivation is only a fiction. Mr. George merely follows Ricardo and others, and they, in turn, followed vulgar beliefs. I have shown that.
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