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Progress and Poverty, Volumes I and II

BOOK VIII. APPLICATION OF THE REMEDY.

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CHAPTER I.—PRIVATE PROPERTY IN LAND INCONSISTENT WITH THE BEST USE OF LAND.

CHAPTER II.—HOW EQUAL RIGHTS TO THE LAND MAY BE ASSERTED AND SECURED.

CHAPTER III.—THE PROPOSITION TRIED BY THE CANONS OF TAXATION.

CHAPTER IV.—INDORSEMENTS AND OBJECTIONS.

Why hesitate? Ye are full-bearded men, With God-implanted will, and courage if Ye dare but show it. Never yet was will But found some way or means to work it out, Nor e’er did Fortune frown on him who dared. Shall we in presence of this grievous wrong, In this supremest moment of all time, Stand trembling, cowering, when with one bold stroke These groaning millions might be ever free?— And that one stroke so just, so greatly good, So level with the happiness of man, That all the angels will applaud the deed. —E. R. Taylor.

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