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Excerpt from The Visitation of London, Anno Domini 1633, 1634, and 1635, Vol. 1 In now presenting the first volume, the Editors feel that some explanation of the long delay since the publication was originally announced is necessary. The fault has not been theirs, nor that of the Society's printers. The large number of the engravings naturally required a considerable time for their production, and it was deemed important, in order to uniformi...

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Excerpt from The Visitation of Wiltshire, 1623I am not aware whether any report of this trial exists, but the memorandum is valuable as showing that this ms. Was received as evidence by the Court.Having said thus much it is only necessary to offer a few words of ex planation as to method followed in editing the manuscript here given. My sole aim and object has been to reproduce it in type with as little variation as possible, so that my reader...

Excerpt from The Complete Works of Henry George: The Science of Political Economy, Books I and IIN ot merely wherever the English tongue 18 spoken, but in all parts of the world, men are arising who will carry forward to final triumph the great movement which Prog ress and Poverty began. The great work is not done, but it is commenced, and can never go back.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic ...

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Excerpt from The Question Before the People, What Is the Real Issue in the Presidential Campaign?: A Speech by Henry George, Before the Tilden and Hendricks Central Club, at Dashaway Hall, San Francisco, on the Evening of August 15th, 1876The Federal tax-gatherer is everywhere. In each exchange by which labor is converted into commodities, there he is standing between buyer and seller to take his toll, Whether it be a match or a locomotive, a ...

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Born in 1839, Henry George learned about poverty early in life, first as a boy-sailor and afterwards by working as a type-setter with a wife and children to support. A talented writer, he gradually rose to become managing editor of the San Francisco Times, and later set up his own crusading journal, the San Francisco Daily Evening Post, only to see his newspaper crushed by the combined power of the press and telegraphic monopolies. Undaunted, ...

Excerpt from The American Republic, Its Dangers and Its Possibilities: An Oration Delivered by Henry George, in the California Theatre, San Francisco, on the Celebration of the 4th of July, 1877 How momentous our own times may be the future alone can tell. We are yet laying the foundations of empire, while stronger run the currents of change and mightier are the forces that marshal and meet. Let us turn to the past, not in the belief that th...

Excerpt from The Complete Works of Henry George: The Science of Political Economy, Books 3 to 5It is to be noted that when used as a term of political economy the word production has in some respects a narrower, and in some respects a wider, meaning than is often, in common use properly enough, attached to it. Since the production with which political economy pri marily deals is the production of wealth, the economic term production refers to ...