. Report of the fifty-fourth meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science [microform] : held at Montreal in August and September 1884. Congresses and conventions; Science; Congrès et conférences; Sciences. TRANSACTIONS OF SECTION F. 865 ponorations a treasure whicli â would enable them to abolisli taxes or to pay off debts 80 soon as the leased lands should fall into the possession of the tState, togt'tlier with such buildiujjs and improveiucuts as mi^'ht h(! found on them. Absolute alienation is a robbery if posterity. J^ook at the prodifrious fortunes which this system
. Report of the fifty-fourth meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science [microform] : held at Montreal in August and September 1884. Congresses and conventions; Science; Congrès et conférences; Sciences. TRANSACTIONS OF SECTION F. 865 ponorations a treasure whicli â would enable them to abolisli taxes or to pay off debts 80 soon as the leased lands should fall into the possession of the tState, togt'tlier with such buildiujjs and improveiucuts as mi^'ht h(! found on them. Absolute alienation is a robbery if posterity. J^ook at the prodifrious fortunes which this system lias accumulated in the hands of the families who f)wn land in the West iMid of London. Why did not the State do as well for itself P So far aa the stimulus to all kinds of improvements and buildings is concerned, a lease of 100 vt'iu's with a new estate would be just as ellective as tlu; fee simple of it. Here ia ail unanswerable proof of the fact : â Durinji' the' last forty years, more than fifty milliards of francs have been invested in the construction oi' railways on tlie Conti- nent under concessions of from seventy to ei inhabitants find on the communal meadows enough to keep several head of stock, and in the communal forest wood for tiring and building purposes. What nialces bad husbandry is not collective ownership, but collective enjoyment or cultivation, because under this latter system lie who improves or produces does not enjoy the fruit of his labour. The Allmend is an excellent institution. It dispenses with the workhouse. It prevents extreme poverty. By attaching a man to his native soil it prevents liira migrating to the towns, The commune is thus an economic no less than a political institution. It tjecomes the organic cell^wr excellence of the social body (or liody politic). I think that there is so much truth in the opinion of Stuart Mill on the question of the 'unearned increment' as to warrant us in concluding that the land tax ought to be raised w
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