Literary remains Author:Richard Jones Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PREFATORY NOTICE. xzxix quantity of examples, all serving to show how rash and baseless most be any universal proposition respecting the effect of a rise or f... more »all of wages upon population; and thus still manifesting the inductive character of Jones's political philosophy, He was also led by his position in the East India College to turn his attention especially upon the economical condition and history of India, as may be seen in Lecture VI., p. 446 of the same series. And, as a part of this subject, he studied the Anglo-Indian revenue systems, upon which there is an article at page 281 of this volume. To the last he cherished the hope of giving something of a complete and systematic character to his speculative views of Political Economy; but the execution of all such projects was prevented by his practical engagements, and by his habits of social intercourse. Another obstacle to his constructing or completing a system of doctrine, was his impatience of the labor which was requisite in order to give literary symmetry to his writings. The results of this peculiarity may be seen in the frequent repetitions of statements and arguments which will be found in the following pages; and in the confused arrangement which we fear will be detected, after all that we have done to give a systematic aspect to the work, by Titles and Tables of Contents. That, notwithstanding these defects, these papers are a valuable addition to the literature of Political Economy, is the conviction under which we have prepared and published them. xl PREFATORY NOTICE. Mr. Jones died in the College at Haileybury, the 20th of January, 1855, and was buried in the neighboring churchyard of Amwell. In preparing these papers for the press, the main labor of comparison, transcription, and directing th...« less