Land nationalisation, its necessity and its aims : being a comparison of the system of landlord and tenant with that of occupying ownership in their influence on the well-being of the people . e evilresults of our land-system that to prove that it had itsorigin in force or fraud in long-past ages. It also happens,that the history of the origin of landed property in general,as well as of our existing systems of land-tenure, are theportions of the subject which have been most fully treated,and which are best known to general readers. Preface. !x Although so much has been written on the land-ques
Land nationalisation, its necessity and its aims : being a comparison of the system of landlord and tenant with that of occupying ownership in their influence on the well-being of the people . e evilresults of our land-system that to prove that it had itsorigin in force or fraud in long-past ages. It also happens,that the history of the origin of landed property in general,as well as of our existing systems of land-tenure, are theportions of the subject which have been most fully treated,and which are best known to general readers. Preface. !x Although so much has been written on the land-ques-tion, I am not aware of any single work which summarisesthe evidence and discusses the results of our system of land-tenure as compared with that of other civilised countries,in its bearing, not upon landlords and tenants alone buton all classes of the community; and I therefore ventureto think that everyone who has at heart the advancementof the social condition of our people, and who feels thedisgrace of our position as at once the wealthiest andthe most pauperised country in the world, will find muchto interest, and perhaps to instruct, in this small volume. Godabning, March^ 1882,. TABLE OF CONTENTS. PAGE Chapter I.—On the Causes of Poverty in the Miiist of Wealth:—Increase of the Value of Land during the Present Century—Great Increase of our Wealth—Pauperism does not diminish inProportion to our Increasing Wealth—Failure of our SocialOrganisation—Increase of Labour-saving Machinery and theUtilisation of Natural Forces—The Anticipated Effect of Mansincreased power over Nature—The Actual Effect—How todiscover the Cause of our Social Failure—Why Great Wealth isoften injurious—Accumulated Wealth may be Beneficial or theReverse—How Great Accumulations of Capital Affect theLabourer—The Nature of the Remedy Suggested—Scope of thePresent Inquiry I—20 Chapter II.—The Origin and Present State of British Land-Tenure :—Antiquity of our Present System
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