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Excerpt from Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry Into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want With Increase of Wealth, The RemedyOut of the open West came a young man of less than thirty to this great city of New York. He was small of stature and slight of build. His alma mater had been the forecastle and the printing-othee. He was poor, nu heralded, unknown. He came from a small city rising at the western golden portals of th...

Excerpt from The Irish Land Question: What It Involves, and How Alone It Can Be Settled, An Appeal to the Land Leagues In charging the Dublin jury in the Land League cases, Mr. Justice Fitzgerald told them that the land laws of Ireland were more favorable to the tenant than those of Great Britain, Belgium, or the United States. As a matter of fact, Justice Fitzgerald is right. For in Ireland certain local customs and the provisions of the Br...

Economist HENRY GEORGE (1839-1897) was, at the height of his popularity in the 1880s and 1890s, considered the third most famous American, behind Mark Twain and Thomas Edison, and his liberal philosophies on taxation, copyrights, poverty issues, and more continue to influence progressive movements today. Here, in this 1886 book, George examines the pressing issues of free trade and protectionism... issues that continue to thwart and challen...

Excerpt from Our Land and Land Policy: Speeches, Lectures, and Miscellaneous Writings This volume is made up of selections from the miscellaneous written and spoken utterances of Henry George not otherwise appearing in book form. It does not purport to contain all of this class of his productions. To make such a publication would require several volumes like this. The present volume is intended to contain only such speeches, lectures, sermons...

Excerpt from The Land Question: Property in Land, the Condition of Labor This book was first published in the early part of 1881 under the title of The Irish Laud Question. In order better to indicate the general character of this subject, and to conform to the title under which it had been republished in other countries, the title was subsequently changed to. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and c...

Economist HENRY GEORGE (1839-1897) was, at the height of his popularity in the 1880s and 1890s, considered the third most famous American, behind Mark Twain and Thomas Edison, and his liberal philosophies on taxation, copyrights, poverty issues, and more continue to influence progressive movements today. Here, in this Henry George work that has been called George's "fighting book, " gathers together essays that first appeared in Frank Lesli...

Why do we have ups and downs in the national economy? Why does poverty continue to exist while a minute number of Americans enjoy a staggering increase in their personal wealth year after year? What went wrong in a country that professes to be dedicated to the proposition that we are all created equal? As timely now as it was when it was written in 1871, Progress and Poverty is an honest and fascinating look at the financial order and the incr...

Excerpt from Progress and Poverty, Vol. 1: An Inquiry Into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want With Increase of Wealth, The Remedy The views herein set forth were in the main brie¿y stated in a pamphlet entitled Our Land and Land Policy, published in San Francisco in 1871. I then intended, as soon as I could, to present them more fully, but the opportunity did not for a long time occur. In the meanwhile I became even m...

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Excerpt from Thy Kingdom Come: A Sermon by Henry George in the City Hall, Glasgow, on Sunday, 28th April, 1889 ON Sunday, 28th April, 1889, Mr. Henry George delivered the following sermon in the City Hall, Glasgow Subject: Thy Kingdom Come. The hall was crowded to suffocation long before the advertised hour. Rev. J. M. Cruickshanks, St. Rollox United Presbyterian Church, assisted by two church choirs, conducted the services. The proceedings b...

Excerpt from Moses: The Crime of PovertyThe advent of such a people marks an epoch in the his tory of the world. But it is not of that advent so much as of the central and colossal figure around which its tradi tions cluster that I propose to speak.Three great religions place the leader of the Exodus upon the highest plane they allot to man. To Christendom and to Islam, as well as to Judaism, Moses is the mouth piece and lawgiver of the Most H...

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In this volume three very different aspects of the late nineteenth-century debate on poverty are bound together: the American Henry George's Progress and Poverty, a response by a British businessman, Isaac B. Cooke, and a description by Andrew Mearns of the reality of poverty in the world's richest city.

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