Deze bedragen zijn het jaargemiddelde van 1795, ontleend aan de tabellen op p. 706 uit: A.L. Bowley, The Statistics of Wages in the United Kingdom During the Last Hundred Years. Part I: Agricultural Wages, in Journal of the Royal Statistical Society 61 (1898), pp. 702-722. (JSTOR)
Agrarian Justice, English Preface, paragraaf 1: "THE following little piece was written in the winter of 1795 and '96; and, as I had not determined whether to publish it during the present war, or to wait till the commencement of a peace, it has lain by me, without alteration or addition, from the time it was written."
Agrarian Justice, English Preface, paragraaf 4: "The error contained in the title of this Sermon determined me to publish my AGRARIAN JUSTICE. It is wrong to say that God made Rich and Poor; he made only Male and Female; and he gave them the earth for their inheritance."
Agrarian Justice, paragraaf 4: "Poverty, therefore, is a thing created by that which is called civilized life. It exists not in the natural state. On the other hand, the natural state is without those advantages which flow from agriculture, arts, science and manufactures."
Agrarian Justice, paragraaf 7: "When, therefore, a country becomes populous by the additional aids of cultivation, art and science, there is a necessity of preserving things in that state; because without it there cannot be sustenance for more, perhaps, than a tenth part of its inhabitants. …"
Agrarian Justice, paragraaf 19: "Cultivation is at least one of the greatest natural improvements ever made by human invention. It has given to created earth a tenfold value. But the landed monopoly that began with it has produced the greatest evil. It has dispossessed more than half the inhabitants of every nation of their natural inheritance, without providing for them, as ought to have been done, an indemnification for that loss, and has thereby created a species of poverty and wretchedness that did not exist before."
Agrarian Justice, paragraaf 17: "… I have entitled this tract "Agrarian Justice" to distinguish it from "Agrarian Law.""
Agrarian Justice, paragraaf 25: "The fault, however, is not in the present possessors. No complaint is tended, or ought to be alleged against them, unless they adopt the crime by opposing justice. …"
Agrarian Justice, paragraaf 22: "To create a national fund, out of which there shall be paid to every person, when arrived at the age of twenty-one years, the sum of fifteen pounds sterling, as a compensation in part, for the loss of his or her natural inheritance, by the introduction of the system of landed property:"
Agrarian Justice, paragraaf 43: "There are, in every country, a number of blind and lame persons totally incapable of earning a livelihood. But as it will always happen that the greater number of blind persons will be among those who are above the age of fifty years, they will be provided for in that class. The remaining sum of £316,666 will provide for the lame and blind under that age, at the same rate of £10 annually for each person.”
Agrarian Justice, paragraaf 10: "It is a position not to be controverted that the earth, in its natural, uncultivated state was, and ever would have continued to be, the common property of the human race. …"
