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The history of Place's agitation is fully given in Mr. Graham Wallas's Life, chap. viii. Wallas's Francis Place, p. 217. First published in 1807-8. Letter iii. Ibid. vi. Sydney Smith put very ingeniously the advantages of what he called the 'lottery' system: of giving, that is, a few great prizes, instead of equalising the incomes of the clergy.
That practical issues hang upon these investigations can be shown by an example from Mr. Wallas's book. Take the quarrel over socialism. You hear it said that without the private ownership of capital people will lose ambition and sink into sloth. Many men, just as well aware of present-day evils as the socialists, are unwilling to accept the collectivist remedy.
He 'put together' the Not Paul but Jesus at Ford Abbey in 1817, and helped to preface the Reform Catechism. Wallas's Francis Place, p. 84. The article of 1811 was also published separately. He wrote only the first volume. Two others were added by Cuthbert Southey.
Hist. xxix. 1300-1341. Parl. Hist. xxxiv. 574-655. Mr. Wallas's Life of Place, p. 25 n. State Trials, xxiv. 575. Ibid. xxv. 330. Ibid. xxv. 390. Paul's Godwin, i. 147. Stephens, ii. 48, 477. Ibid. ii. 34-41, 323, 478-481. Ibid. ii. 483. Bentham's Works, x. 404. He was member for Old Sarum 1801-2; but his career ended by a declaratory act disqualifying for a seat men who had received holy orders.
James Mill, according to Place, wrote a 'memorable and admirable essay, "Schools for all, not schools for Churchmen only." Wallas's Francis Place, 99 n. This absurd suspicion was aroused by the quarrel about Burdett's arrest. See Wallas's Place, p. 56. Mr. Wallas gives an account of these schemes in chap. iv. of his Life of Place.
See Place's account in Additional MSS. 27,823. G. C. Robertson, Philosophical Remains, p. 166; and under George Grote in Dictionary of National Biography. Letters communicated by Mr. Graham Wallas. See Mr. Wallas's Francis Place, p. 91. So Place observed that Mill 'could help the mass, but could not help the individual, not even himself or his own. Wallas's Francis Place, p. 79.
He succeeded beyond all dispute in forcibly presenting one set of views which profoundly influenced his countrymen; and the very narrowness of his intellect enabled him to plant his blows more effectively. The book contains very full materials; and, if rather dry, deals with a dry subject. Wallas's Francis Place, p. 70 n. Bain's James Mill, p. 166. Gifford's real name was John Richards Green.
'Oh no, sir! It's Miss Wallas's dancing-class breaking up that's all. 'Breaking up? echoed the colonel, whose mind was sometimes a trifle slow in the uptake. 'She rents the room alternate Fridays, sir, and usually gives 'em a little treat just before Christmas. I don't know, pursued the waiter, meditatively laying two fingers wide on his chin, 'as many people would call it a treat.
Hume had been introduced to Place by James Mill, who thought him worth 'nursing. Place found him at first 'dull and selfish, but 'nursed him' so well that by 1836 he had become the 'man of men, Wallas's Francis Place, p. 181, 182. Torrens's Life of Graham, i. 250-72, where his great speech of 14th May 1830 is given. 4 and 5 William IV. cap. 15.
He at last could see Introductory Economics given as he wanted to have it given realizing at the same time that his plans were in the nature of an experiment. The two textbooks used in the first semester were McDougall's "Social Psychology" and Wallas's "Great Society."
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