Hazell, to whom we here desire to convey our grateful
acknowledgement.
[71:1] See his chapter "Of Property" in his classical work on _Civil
Government_, a chapter which, as the conservative Hallam observes,
"would be sufficient, if all Locke's other writings had perished, to
leave him a high name in philosophy."
[71:2] For a short account of the writings of Thomas Spence and Patrick
Edward Dove, see J. Morrison Davidson's _Four Precursors of Henry
George_. (Publisher, F. Henderson, London.)
[71:3] See his _Agrarian Justice_.
[74:1] "As much land as a man tills, plants, improves, cultivates, and
can use the product of, so much is his property."--JOHN LOCKE, _Civil
Government_. (Of Property.)
[78:1] "_Fire in the Bush_: The Spirit burning, not consuming, but
purging mankind." Published by Giles Calvert. This pamphlet, too, is
very scarce. There is no copy in the British Museum, but a copy is to be
found in the Bodleian Library.
CHAPTER VIII
LIGHT SHINING IN BUCKINGHAMSHIRE
"O England, England! wouldst thou have thy government sound and
healthful? Then cast about and see and search diligently to find
out all those burthens that came in by Kings, and remove them; and
then will thy Commonwealth's Government arise from under the clods
under which as yet it is buried and covered with
deformity."--WINSTANLEY, _The Law of Freedom_.
The place in the country to which our hero had retired was, we believe,
the little town of Colnbrook, in the extreme southern end of the county
of Buckinghamshire, on the borders of Middlesex, and within seven miles
of St.
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