See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
THOMAS See also:SPENCE (1750-1814)
, inventor of a See also:system of See also:land nationalization, was See also:born at See also:Newcastle-on-See also:Tyne on the 21st of See also:June 1750, the son of a Scottish netmaker and shoemaker
.
A dispute in connexion with See also:common land rights at Newcastle impelled him to the study of the land question
.
His See also:- SCHEME (Lat. schema, Gr. oxfjya, figure, form, from the root axe, seen in exeiv, to have, hold, to be of such shape, form, &c.)
scheme was not for land nationalization proper, but for the See also:establishment of self-contained parochial communities, in which See also:rent paid to the See also:corporation, in which the See also:absolute ownership of the land was vested, should be the only tax of any See also:kind
.
His pamphlet, The See also:Meridian See also:Sun of See also:Liberty, which was first hawked in Newcastle, appeared in See also:London in 1793; it was reissued by Mr H
.
M
.
Hyndman under the See also:title of The Nationalization of the Land in 1795 and 1882
.
See also:Spence presently See also:left Newcastle for London, where he kept a bookstall in High See also:Holborn
.
In 1784 he spent six months in Newgate See also:gaol for the publication of a pamphlet distasteful to the authorities, and in '8o' he was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment for seditious See also:libel in connexion with his pamphlet entitled The Restorer of Society to its Natural See also:State
.
He died in London on the 8th of See also:September 18'4
.
His admirers formed a " Society of Spencean Philanthropists," of which some See also:account is given in Harriet See also:Martineau's See also:England During the See also:Thirty Years' See also:Peace
.
See also See also:Davenport, See also:Life, Writings and Principles of See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas Spence (London, '836)
.
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