 | Alexander Mackenzie - 1883 - 640 էջ
...and sell, and bequeath and devise it. We may safely leave them the shell, if we take the kernel. // is not necessary to confiscate land, it is only necessary to confiscate rent. "What I therefore propose as the simple, yet sovereign remedy, which will taise wages, increase the... | |
 | Henry George - 1879 - 600 էջ
...buy and sell, and bequeath and devise it. We may safely leave them the shell, if we take the kernel. It is not necessary to confiscate land; it is only necessary to confiscate rent. Nor to take rent for public uses is it necessary that the State should bother with the letting of lands,... | |
 | James Platt - 1883 - 538 էջ
...buy and sell, and bequeath and devise it. We may safely leave them the shell, if we take the kernel. It is not necessary to confiscate land; it is only necessary to confiscate rent." In this free and easy manner, this writer, who professes to believe in "justice," coolly submits a... | |
 | Francis Amasa Walker - 1883 - 256 էջ
...buy and sell and bequeath and devise it. We may safely leave them the shell, if we take the kernel. It is not necessary to confiscate land ; it is only necessary to confiscate rent." " What I propose," he exclaims, in a fine glow of enthusiasm, " as the simple yet sovereign remedy,... | |
 | James Taylor - 1883 - 100 էջ
...buy and sell, and bequeathe and devise it. We may safely leave them the shell, if we take the kernel. It is not necessary to confiscate land ; it is only necessary to confiscate tent." — [Progress and Poverty, Book viii, Chapter 2.] "O most lame and impotent conclusion !" What... | |
 | Alexander Mackenzie, Alexander Macgregor, Alexander Macbain - 1883 - 604 էջ
...buy and sell, and bequeath and devise it. We may safely leave them the shell, if we take the kernel. It is not necessary to confiscate land, it is only necessary to confiseate rent. "What I therefore propose as the simple, yet sovereign remedy, which will taise wages,... | |
 | Henry George - 1882 - 104 էջ
...and sell, and bequeath and devise it. \Ve may safely leave them the shell, if we 'take the kernel. It is not necessary to confiscate land; it is only necessary to •eoHfunte rent. Nor to take rent for public uses is it necessary that the State should bother -with... | |
 | James Platt - 1884 - 236 էջ
...buy and sell, and bequeath and devise it. We may safely leave them the shell, if we take the kernel. It is not necessary to confiscate land; it is only necessary to confiscate rent." For the sake of argument, let us admit that the owners of land believe, with Mr. George, that there... | |
 | Annie Besant - 1884 - 468 էջ
...buy and sell, and bequeath and devise it. We may safely leave them the shell, if we take the kernel. It is not necessary to confiscate land ; it is only necessary to confiscate rent."'' And why is this to be done ? Because Mr. George sees in rent a God-made provision against poverty.... | |
 | George William W. baron Bramwell - 1885 - 104 էջ
...buy and sell, .and bequeath and devise it. We may safely leave them the shell if we take the kernel. It is not necessary to confiscate land, it is only necessary to confiscate rent." And this Mr. George proposes, and without compensation. He enquires into the "justice of the remedy."... | |
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Let the individuals who now hold it still retain, if they want to, possession of 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 them the shell,... 
