...not requiring periodical renewal, but spent once for all in giving the land a permanent increase of productiveness, it appears to me that the return made...of fertility which has been artificially given to if. An American political economist Mr. HC Carey,* takes away, still more completely than I have attempted...

...be, returned to them, like the capital of a farmer or manufacturer, from what it produces. In lien of it they now have land, of a certain richness, which...possessed from the beginning the degree of fertility which haï been artificially given to it. Some writers, in particular Mr. H. C. Carey, take away, still more...

...think that the incomes of those who own the Bedford Level or the Lincolnshire wolds, ought to be culled profit and not rent, because those lands would have...possessed from the beginning the degree of fertility which haa been artificially given to it. Some writers, in particular Mr. H. 0. Carey, take away, still more...

.... Equally fertile lands commands an equal rent, whether its fertility is natural or acquired. . . . The owners are not capitalists, but landlords; they...of fertility which has been artificially given to it".58 Karl Marx thoroughly misunderstood Ricardo. Referring to Ricardo's definition of rent in the...