Page 55. "The general observation is that the city of London moves westward. Where the consumption of commodity is, viz.: among the gentry, the vendors of the same must seat themselves." Page 72. "It were good to know the geometrical content, figure and situation of all the lands of a kingdom, especially according to its most natural bounds. It were good to know how much hay an acre of every sort will bear; how many cattle the same weight of each sort of hay will feed and fatten; what quantity of grain and other commodities the same acre will bear in one, three or seven years; unto what use each soil is proper; all which particulars I call intrinsic value, for there is also another value merely accidental or extrinsic." Page 51. "Now, forasmuch as princes are not only powerful but rich, according to a number of people (hands being the Father as lands are the Mother or Womb of Wealth), it is no wonder why states by encouraging marriage, advance their own interests." |
Page 23. "If great cities are naturally apt to remove their seats, I ask, which way? I say, in the case of London it must be westward If it follow from hence that the palaces of the greatest men will remove westward, it will also naturally follow that the dwellings of others who depend upon them will creep after them." Page 31. "I propound a survey of the figures, quantities and situation of all lands, both according to the civil bounds.... and natural distinctions.... If there be ten acres of land I would have it judged whether they be better for hay or corn..... This former I call an inquisition into the intrinsic values of land, this latter of extrinsic or accidental follows." Page 49. "Here we are to remember that in consequence of our opinion that labor is the Father and active principle of wealth, as lands are the Mother, that the state by killing, mutilating, or imprisoning their members do withal punish themselves." |
Passages equally striking might be added to these. Apart from such a minute examination of the "Bills," there are the following additional points which would lead us to the same conclusion. The
