108.Cairnes's Leading Principles,p.222.explains the principle.Taussig (pp.107and 274)agrees with Brentano that Mill's doctrine is simply a corollary from the theory that wages 'are paid out of capital.'
109.Political Economy,p.219(bk.ii.ch.xii.section 1).
110.Ibid.p.219(bk.ii.ch.xii.section 2).
111.Political Economy,p.578(bk.v.ch.xi.section 9)112.Political Economy,p.563(bk.v.ch.x.section 5).
113.Ibid.p.564(bk.v.ch.x.section 5).
114.Political Economy,p.56(bk.i.ch.v.section 10).
115.Dissertations,iv.47(reprint of article in Fortnightly Review of May 1869).
116.Ibid.iv.67.
117.Since no edition of the Political Economy appeared between this time and Mill's death,he had no opportunity of making alterations in his treatise.His review of Thornton,however,seems to indicate a failure to appreciate the full bearing of his concessions.
118.Dissertations,iv.46.
119.Dissertations,iv.43.
120.See Taussig,pp.211-45for the vagueness of such writers as M'Culloch and Torrens,'The point',he says,'was hardly ever raised in terms.'
121.Taussig,p.238.
122.Article in Fortnightly Review for July 1860.See Mill,Political Economy,p.565(bk.v.ch.x.section 5).
123.See Dictionary of National Biography for a short notice.
124.On Labour,p.292.
125.Leading Principles,p.257.
126.Leading Principles,p.277.
127.'Historically',says Professor Taussig (p.242),'there may be ground for that contention,'viz.that the wage-fund never meant more than Ricardo's doctrine that profits were the 'leaving of wages',and that accumulation depended on profits.This,he adds,is held by many writers who reject the 'wage-fund'proper,that is,Thornton's 'will-o'-the-wisp.'
128.On Labour,p.288.
129.On Labour,p.274.
130.Ibid.pp.86,87.
131.Taussig,p.122.
132.See the posthumous articles in the Fortnightly Review for February,March,and April,1879.They were obviously imperfect,and scarcely justified publication.
133.Political Economy,p.133(bk.ii.ch.i.section 4).
134.Leading Principles,p.316.
135.Political Economy,p.476(bk.iv.ch.vii.section 7).
136.Political Economy,p.476(bk.iv.ch.vii.)Mill refers to Babbage's Economy of Machinery and Manufactuers for an incidental reference to applications of profit-sharing in Cornish mines,and a suggestion that it would be applicable elsewhere.Babbage gives little more than a passing suggestion.
137.Leading Principles,pp.339,344.
138.Political Economy,p.566(bk.v.ch.x.section 5).
139.Political Economy,p.569(bk.v.ch.xi.section 2).
140.Ibid.p.573(bk.v.ch.xi.section 7).
141.He qualifies this to some extent in the Liberty.The state should enforce education and pay for it,but not provide schools.
The line is hard to draw.
142.See especially Political Economy,p.585(bk.v.ch.xi.section 14).
143.Political Economy,p.138(bk.ii.ch.ii.section 4).
144.Ibid.p.61(bk.i.ch.vi.section 3).
145.Political Economy,p.581(bk.v.ch.xi.section 12).
146.J.S.Mill's Ansichten uber die Sociale Frage,etc.(1866).
147.Fortnightly Review for February 1879.
148.Political Economy (first edition)i.252-53.
149.Autobiography,p.246.
150.Political Economy,p.123(bk.ii.ch.i.section 1).
151.Dissertations,iv.59.
152.Ibid.iv.240.
153.Leading Principles,p.333.
154.Dissertations,iv.263.
155.Ibid.iv.285.
156.Ibid.iv.274.
157.Ibid.iv.269.
158.Ibid.iv.60.The whole doctrine that the sanctity of property depends upon the mode of acquisition by remote proprietors seems to be scarcely reconcilable with sound Utilitarianism.
159.After giving Adam Smith's famous account of the causes of the varying rates of wages,Mill points out 'a class of considerations'too much neglected by his predecessors:cases,namely,in which unskilled labourers are insufficiently paid;and remarks that there is almost a 'hereditary distinction of caste.'
--Political Economy,p.238(bk.ii.ch.xiv.section 2).
160.Political Economy,p.456(bk.iv.ch.vii.section 1).
161.Ibid.p.129(bk.ii.ch.i.section 3).
162.'On the Definition of Political Economy,and on the Method of Investigation proper to it.'Reprinted in Unsettled Questions,and quoted in the Logic,p.288(bk.vi.ch.ix.section 3).
163.Unsettled Questions,p.143.
164.Autobiography,p.210.
165.See,e.g.Comte's Philosophie Positive,iv.266-78.The fourth volume of Comte disappointed Mill,as he says;and this probably explains one reason.
166.Logic,p.590(bk.vi.ch.ix.section 4).
167.Unsettled Questions,p.148.
168.Ibid.pp.137-50.
169.Mill makes this remark himself in writing to Comte about phrenology.
