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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
Preface and Introduction to the Preliminary View of the Philoso-
phy of Happiness
CHAPTER I.
Preliminary View of the Philosophy of Happiness
CHAPTER II.
Onthe Wealth-creating Attributes of Labour and the consequent
Rights of the Labouring or Wealth-creating Classes...
CHAPTER III.
On the Sources of National Wealth....
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63
77
CHAPTER IV.
On the Cost to the Nation of Monopolies, Protections, and forced
On the Unatural Co-operation of Corn Laws, with an Enhanced
Currency, by which the blessing of dear money, which ought to
have brought with it, as its natural companions, cheap neces-
saries, was changed into a doubling, and in some instances,
a four-fold deepening of the curse of dear food ...
.....
133
On the increased Value of Land under a system of Free Trade.... 165
CHAPTER XI.
On the Advantages of the small Allotment system, as a means of
carrying the Nation safely through any temporary inconvenience
to Agriculturists, which might else attend the Abolition of the
Corn Laws...
...
175
CHAPTER XII.
A Property Tax considered-Objections replied to, Advantages
stated....
CHAPTER XIII.
On the Mischievous Tendencies of the Family Monopoly or Law
of Primogeniture, and the consequent expediency of its Aboli-
tion
CHAPTER XIV.
197
216
On the Collateral Benefits of a Property Tax, or the Advantages
of Constituting the Tax Voting Class, the Tax Paying Class .. 239
Plan of a Property Tax..
CHAPTER XV.
CHAPTER XVI.
A Poll Tax suggested in aid of a Property Tax, if indispensable,
as being, though objectionable, less mischievous than the con-
tinuation of Indirect Taxation
254
261
CHAPTER XVII.
Poor Laws for poor Ireland...
266
CHAPTER XVIII.
Appropriation of Irish Church Property and Church Reform 270
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CHAPTER XIX.
Where should Power be vested? In the hands of the few, or in
the hands of the many?
CHAPTER XX.
On Pure Representation -Hereditary Legislation-The Hereditary
Peerage-Parliamentary Duration-The Ballot, and Municipal
Reform
278
On the Awful Responsibility of Voting in Parliament..
308
CHAPTER XXII.
John Bull Awake.
311