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Thomas Hodgskin was one of the most significant thinkers of nineteenth-century radicalism. An active writer for over fifty years and an associate of Bentham and James Mill amongst others, his life provides a paradigm for understanding the evolution of radicalism from Waterloo to the Second Reform Act. This study rescues him from his marginalisation and mis-casting as an `early English socialist: far from being a socialist, many of his views seem to mark him out as a forerunner of New Right or neo-liberal ideology. Drawing on a range of new sources and reassessing Hodgskins life and work, Dr Stack argues that the crux of Hodgskins thought was the essentially theological distinction he drew between nature and artifice. Throughout, he makes plain the centrality of providentialism to nineteenth-century radicalism.
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ROYAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY STUDIES IN HISTORY New Series
Nature and Artifice
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Studies in History New Series Editorial Board
Professor Martin Daunton (Convenor) Professor David Eastwood Dr Steven Gunn Professor Colin Jones Dr Peter Mandler Professor Pat Thane Dr Simon Walker Professor Kathleen Burk (Honorary Treasurer)
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Nature and Artifice
The Life and Thought of Thomas Hodgskin (17871869)
David Stack
THE ROYAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY THE BOYDELL PRESS
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David Stack 1998
All Rights Reserved. Except as permitted under current legislation no part of this work may be photocopied, stored in a retrieval system, published, performed in public, adapted, broadcast, transmitted, recorded or reproduced in any form or by any means, without the prior permission of the copyright owner
First published 1998
A Royal Historical Society publication Published by The Boydell Press an imprint of Boydell & Brewer Ltd PO Box 9 Woodbridge Suffolk IP12 3DF UK and of Boydell & Brewer Inc. PO Box 41026 Rochester NY 14604 4126 USA
ISBN 0 86193 229 3
ISSN 0269-2244
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Stack, David, 1969 Nature and artifice : the life and thought of Thomas Hodgskin (17871869) / David Stack. p. cm. (Royal Historical Society studies in history. New series, ISSN 0269-2244) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-86193-229-3 (hardback : alk. paper) 1. Hodgskin, Thomas, 17871869. 2. Economists Great Britain Biography. 3. Radicals Great Britain Biography. I. Title. II. Series. HB103.H58S721998 330'.092dc21 [B]97-28794
This book is printed on acid-free paper
Printed in Great Britain by St Edmundsbury Press Ltd, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
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IN MEMORIAM ANDY FREEL (19681993)
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Contents
Page
Acknowledgements
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Abbreviations
ix
Introduction
1
1 Nature and Artifice
8
2 'A Discontented and Disappointed Man'
34
3 Anarchism and the London Mechanics Institution
62
4 Science, Providentialism and 'A Labourer'
89
5 Rescuing Radicalism: The Critique of Political Economy
112
6 Influence and Obscurity in the 1830s
137
7 The Anonymous Journalist
158
8 Radical and Free Trader
180
Conclusion
204
Bibliography
217
Index
243
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Acknowledgements
The author, like his subject, is a convinced Lockean, and would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge some of the influences that have shaped his work. In particular, I would like to thank Michael Ellam and Richard Brieley, without whose competition and encouragement I would never have become an historian. I am indebted to all those I have discussed ideas with, or who have read and commented on earlier drafts, especially Nicola Allison, David Eastwood, Boyd Hilton, Jon Parkin, and Miles Taylor. This book is a development of my doctoral thesis, funded by the British Academy and supervised by Gareth Stedman Jones. My greatest debt of gratitude is, of course, to my parents, my brother, Paul and my late grandparents, without whose support I would not have achieved this book or anything else.
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