 | Alexander Mackenzie - 1883 - 640 pages
...spring from one point, supplement and support) and correlate and co-ordinate with, one another : — " I do not propose either to purchase or to confiscate...what they are pleased to call their land. Let them continue to call it their land. Let them buy and sell, and bequeath and devise it. We may safely leave... | |
 | Henry George - Economics - 1879 - 600 pages
...by it. With the current we may glide fast and far. Against it, it is hard pulling and slow progress. I do not propose either to purchase or to confiscate...what they are pleased to call their land. Let them continue to call it their land. Let them buy and sell, and bequeath and devise it. We may safely leave... | |
 | Henry George - 1882 - 104 pages
...we may glide fast and far. Against it, it is hard pulling and slow progress. I do not propose cither to purchase or to confiscate private property in land....first would be unjust ; the second, needless. Let the individual* who [Boos VHI.1 now hold it still retain, if they want to, possession of what they are... | |
 | James Taylor - Single tax - 1883 - 100 pages
...want," Mr. George comes down to practcial work — sums up the conclusion of the whole matter, thus : "I do not propose either to purchase or to confiscate...what they are pleased to call their land. Let them continue to call it theit land. Let them buy and sell, and bequeathe and devise it. We may safely leave... | |
 | James Platt - Conduct of life - 1883 - 538 pages
...justice is the highest and truest expediency.'" We get at Mr. George's ideas of justice (pages 62, 68): " I do not propose either to purchase or to confiscate...what they are pleased to call their land. Let them continue to call it their land. Let them buy and sell, and bequeath and devise it. We may safely leave... | |
 | Alexander Mackenzie, Alexander Macgregor, Alexander Macbain - Clans - 1883 - 602 pages
...spring from one point, supplement and supportt and correlate and co-ordinate with, one another : — " I do not propose either to purchase or to confiscate...what they are pleased to call their land. Let them continue to call it their land. Let them buy and sell, and bequeath and devise it. We may safely leave... | |
 | English literature - 1883 - 606 pages
...really is. * ' Cantemporary Review,' November 1882, p. 795. ' I do not propose,' says Mr. George, ' either to purchase or to confiscate private property...still retain, if they want to, possession of what they arc pleased to call their I'M:}. Let them continue to call it their land. Let them buy, and sell, and... | |
 | Francis Amasa Walker - Land use - 1883 - 244 pages
..." I do not," he says, " propose either to purchase or to confiscate private property in land. . . . Let the individuals who now hold it, still retain,...what they are pleased to call their land. Let them continue to call it their land. Let them buy and sell and bequeath and devise it. We may safely leave... | |
 | James Platt - Poor - 1884 - 236 pages
...modern civilization, and for all the evils which flow from it. " We must make land common property." " I do not propose either to purchase or to confiscate...what they are pleased to call their land. Let them continue to call it their land. Let them buy and sell, and bequeath and devise it. We may safely leave... | |
 | Annie Besant - Free thought - 1884 - 468 pages
...proposes to leave the land to the landlords, but give the people the rent. "I do not propose", he says, "either to purchase or to confiscate private property...what they are pleased to call their land. Let them continue to call it their land. Let them buy and sell, and bequeath and devise it. We may safely leave... | |
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I do not propose either to purchase or to confiscate private property in land. The first would be unjust; the second, needless. Let the individuals who now hold it still retain, if they want to, possession of what they are pleased to call their land.... 
