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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Single tax, (search)
bandoning or withdrawing his original views in this connection neglected, however, to disprove them. Other writers and apologists of the existing order sprang up by scores during the controversial period between 1880 and 1894, and many answers to Progress and Poverty were given to the world. The most notable of these answers was the one prepared by the late Duke of Argyll, entitled The Prophet of San Francisco, and republished in full, with Mr. George's reply thereto, in 1893. Patrick Edward Dove was another forerunner of George. In the Theory of human progression he says: If, then, successive generations of men cannot have their practical share of the actual soil (including mines, etc.), how can the division of the advantages of the natural earth be effected? By the division of its annual value or rent; that is, by making the rent of the soil the common property of the nation. That is (as the taxation is the common property of the State), by taking the whole of the taxes o