A True Republic Classic Reprint

Author : David Reeves Smith
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780260579096
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book Ownership and Sovereignty written by David Reeves Smith and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-08 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Ownership and Sovereignty: An Outline of the True Republic This, of course, is saying a great deal, - so much that it may easily be mistaken for exaggeration, especially in the hopeful, not to say glorious days which have produced a Henry George. For has not this gentleman endowed his age with that magnificent work, Progress and Poverty Not in New York or London, nor in Paris, Dublin or Leipsic, has Mr. George's book found a more attentive and admiring reader than myself. It is not merely what the cumbrous intellect of the London Times describes as containing many shrewd suggestions, and criticism of economic doctrine which future writers on political economy must either refute or accept it is rather as the Philadelphia Star puts it, a trumpet call to a struggle which cannot long be avoided; or as the Episcopal Register says, a startling novelty shown to be simple socialism become conservative revolution turned reasonable. Moreover, Mr. George's theory, - that the land of the world belongs to the people of the world, -has only to be stated and explained to stand self-evident forever. A farm worth a hundred dollars, or even a desert worth nothing, may soon become worth a hundred millions of dollars, by the mere settlement upon it of some thousands of industrious people. What puts the increased value into that piece of land The presence alone of all those people. Then who should enjoy the increment they produce Unmistakably all those people. In short, since Mr. George has lived and written, the land-tenures of the world-have died moral justice, the soul of them, has departed, leaving only the stately corpse of conventional law. It may take a few centuries to bury this corpse, even in America. But the funeral is certain. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.