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  1. For that,see ThomasJefferson’s letterto HenryLee,May8, 1825,republishedby the Universityof
    VirginiaLibrary2012,http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=JefLett.sgm&images=images/mod-
    eng&data=/texts/ english/modeng/parsed&tag=public&part=280&division=div1, accessed Wednesday,
    April18, 2012.

  2. For Aristotle’s influenceoverCicero,see BookOne.Aristotle’s influenceon Cicerois mentionedin
    Blakesley1839,109-140;D. J. Furley1989,203;Isle 2006,87; and J. S. Reided. 1874,xxiv.To quoteBook 2
    of the Cicero-authoredAcademica, CicerolaudedAristotle’s writingsas “a goldenfloodof words.” For
    that,see Cicero2006a,70. For Cicero’s defensesof privateproperty,see BooksOneand Two.See Cicero
    defendprivatepropertyin Cicero1913,Bk. 2, sec. 21, p. 73, accessedonlineWednesday,August3, 2011.J.
    Powell2000,8, broughtthis statementof Cicero’s to my attention.Alsosee Cicerodefendprivateproper-
    ty againstwelfare-stateredistributionismin Cicero1913,Bk. 1, Sec. 14, accessedonlineFriday,November
    16, 2007.

  3. We sawAlgernonSidneydefendprivatepropertyrightsandthe nightwatchmanstatein Book
    One.Sidney’s writingsin defenseof laissezfaireare A. Sidney 1750 vol. 2, 126;and A. Sidney1996,ch. 3,
    sec. 6, para.2, accessedonlineWednesday,April18, 2012.A. Burris 1983 2d ed., 67, broughtthis state-
    mentof Sidney’s to my attention.

  4. JohnAdams1819a,12.

  5. Mencken1922d,292.

  6. Rand1961c,22–23.

  7. Rand1963e,18; and Rand1990c,6.

  8. P. Gay 1966 vol. 1, x.

  9. W. Durant1961,195–96; and P. Gay 1969 vol. 2, 130, 217.

  10. Marx1844,accessedonlineWednesday,July29, 2009.

  11. T. G. Buchholz1995,225; and R. Porter 2004 U.S.version,429.

  12. I firstheardof G. E. Mooreand learnedof G. E. Moore’s influenceon Keynesin W. C. Biven1989,
    7–8, 11. Thisis also notedin J. B. Davis1994,9–49, 53–103, 148–157, 180–85, 190–94.

  13. JohnMaynardKeynesacknowledgesMalthus’s influenceon himin Keynes1920,10, 21; Keynes
    1921,83 fn. 1; and Keynes1964,32–33, 362–64.

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