This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 Excerpt: ...by works of man--in all cases in which the use of it is let on hire. The aim of this "scientific" definition, therefore, is apparently to single out the hire of land as the only kind of hire which ought to get the name of rent. 8. But this distinction breaks down completely on a careful examination. In the first place ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 Excerpt: ...by works of man--in all cases in which the use of it is let on hire. The aim of this "scientific" definition, therefore, is apparently to single out the hire of land as the only kind of hire which ought to get the name of rent. 8. But this distinction breaks down completely on a careful examination. In the first place even if it were a sound distinction for other purposes, it can have no application to a discrimination between value for hire and value for purchase. What we are in search of now is a definition of the word "rent" as the price of hire, as distinguished from the price of purchase. No separate word exists which is applied to the purchase of land as distinct from the purchase of any other article. Yet the limitation which exists as to the total area of the earth's surface applies equally to land whether it is hired or purchased. But this is not the only objection to the "scientific" character of that definition of rent which limits it to the hire of land. When we come to close quarters with the distinction between the one thing, or the few things, which "cannot be increased in total quantity," and other things which can be increased by man's action, we find that this distinction breaks down in another way. The only distinction in this respect between land and other things, is that the limit of land area is a visible limit, whereas the limit on other things is generally invisible. As usual in all philosophies, that which is gross and visible is apprehended, whilst that which is invisible is forgotten or neglected. But when we come to think about it, we can see that the absolute limitation on the total area of land implies a corresponding limit on the total quantity of all its materials and of all its product...
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