 What I, therefore, propose, as the simple yet sovereign remedy, which will raise wages, increase the earnings of capital, extirpate pauperism, abolish poverty, give remunerative employment to whoever wishes it, afford free scope to human powers, lessen...  Unitarian Review and Religious Magazine - Page 476edited by - 1882Full view - About this book
 | Henry George - 1879 - 600 pages
...employment to whoever wishes it, afford free scope to human powers, lessen crime, elevate morals, and taste, and intelligence, purify government and carry...nobler heights, is — to appropriate rent by taxation. In this way the State may become the universal landlord without calling herself so, and without assuming... | |
 | Francis Amasa Walker - 1883 - 244 pages
...employment to whoever wishes it, afford free scope to human powers, lessen crime, elevate morals and taste and intelligence, purify government, and carry...heights, is — to -appropriate rent by taxation." Of course, the present owners of the land — many, perhaps most, of whom have, under the express sanction... | |
 | 1883 - 606 pages
...employment to whoever wishes it, afford free scope to human powers, lessen crime, elevate morals, and taste, and intelligence, purify government, and carry civilization to yet nobler heights, is — appropriate rent by taxation.' It is not essential to Mr. George's scheme, that it should be carried... | |
 | James Taylor - 1883 - 100 pages
...employment to whoever wishes it, afford free scope to human powers, lessen crime, elevate morals, and taste, and intelligence, purify government and carry civilization to yet nobler heights !" §5. Mr. George is in thorough earnest; he fully be lieves in the efficacy of his remedy ; and he... | |
 | James Platt - 1883 - 538 pages
...employment to whoever wishes it, afford free scope to human powers, lessen crime, elevate morals and taste and intelligence, purify government, and carry civilization to yet nobler heights, is—to appropriate rent by taxation, to abolish all taxation save that of land values." Is Mr. George... | |
 | 1884 - 610 pages
...employment to whoever wishes it, afford free scope to human powers, lessen crime, elevate morals and taste and intelligence, purify government and carry...nobler heights is to appropriate rent by taxation. — Mr. George, Progress and Poverty, p. 63. JTJEISPEUDENCE. Dr. Hearn. 1. Explain the meaning of Seisin... | |
 | William Hurrell Mallock - 1884 - 272 pages
...employment to whoever wishes it, afford free scope to human powers, lessen crime, elevate morals and taste and intelligence, purify government, and carry civilization to yet nobler heights, is appropriate rent by taxation." It is not essential to Mr. George's scheme that it should be carried... | |
 | James Platt - 1884 - 236 pages
...employment to whoever wishes it, afford free scope to human powers, lessen crime, elevate morals and taste and intelligence, purify government, and carry civilization to yet nobler heights, is—to appropriate rent by taxation, to abolish all taxation save that of land values." Is Mr. George... | |
 | Charles Lowe, Henry Wilder Foote, John Hopkins Morison, Henry H. Barber, James De Normandie - 1882 - 592 pages
...right. The confidence of the writer that this will be an effective cure of human poverty is set fprth in this language: — What I, therefore, propose as...rent in this way . . . would make it possible for govern•Irish Land Question, p. 64. rnent to assume the running of railroads, telegraphs, and other... | |
 | George Claude Lorimer - 1886 - 510 pages
...employment to whoever wishes it, afford free scope to human lxiwers, lessen crime, elevate morals and taste and intelligence, purify government and carry...nobler heights, is — to appropriate rent by taxation. A further statement of his views we have in The North American Revieiv, July, 1885, where, during a... | |
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