This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ... relieved him from the necessity of writing daily for the papers. He died in 1869 at the age of eigthy-two. Not a single London journal, M. Halevy records, published a / notice of his life or works. II. INDIVIDUALISM (a) Jealousy of Governmental Powers Hodgskin's occupation as journalist made it ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ... relieved him from the necessity of writing daily for the papers. He died in 1869 at the age of eigthy-two. Not a single London journal, M. Halevy records, published a / notice of his life or works. II. INDIVIDUALISM (a) Jealousy of Governmental Powers Hodgskin's occupation as journalist made it necessary for him to speak out on many subjects; to express judgment on the activities of men, the proposals of reforms, and the ideas current in his time. A published record of opinions of this sort is a severe test of consistency, composed as it is of more or less spontaneous reactions in regard to concrete proposals. Hodgskin's sympathies and his theory were singularly in accord, and we find therefore an almost harmonious run of opinions from his early manhood to the end of his career. Hodgskin began his activity as a writer with a revolt against a discipline that repressed individuality, and to the end of his life he was ever jealously guarding the sphere of individual liberty. He was always on the alert to detect the encroachment of governmental powers. In his early work, the "Essay on Naval Discipline" he expressed the hope that "our people, while they quietly practice lawful obedience, may never cease legally to resist oppression."' A year or two later, while traveling through Germany, he remarks that the government-made roads of that country were inferior to the privately built highways of England.2 He comments on the evil effects of tolls on roads and rivers, of government monopolies, and of trade and guild regulations in the tone of a disciple of Adam Smith. He goes, however, one step beyond 1 Essay on Naval Discipline, p. 215. % Germany, vol. i, p. 140. his master in the opinion that the repeal of (guild) regulations is beyond the...
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