. Little journeys to the homes of great reformers ... 59. GREAT REFORMERS—Henry George ROGRESS & POVERTY,like every other great book (orgreat man) was an accident—a providential accident^ Thebook was ten years in the in-cubation j^ It began with anewspaper editorial in 1869,and found form in a volume offive hundred pages in 1879 S<^The editorial merely calledattention to the fact that Cali-fornia in spite of her vastwealth was peopled, most part, with peopledesperately poor; and that ground in the vicinity ofany city, tow^n or place of enterprise was held at soexorbitant a figure th
. Little journeys to the homes of great reformers ... 59. GREAT REFORMERS—Henry George ROGRESS & POVERTY,like every other great book (orgreat man) was an accident—a providential accident^ Thebook was ten years in the in-cubation j^ It began with anewspaper editorial in 1869,and found form in a volume offive hundred pages in 1879 S<^The editorial merely calledattention to the fact that Cali-fornia in spite of her vastwealth was peopled, most part, with peopledesperately poor; and that ground in the vicinity ofany city, tow^n or place of enterprise was held at soexorbitant a figure that the poor were actually enslavedby the men who owned the land. That is to say, themen who owned the land, controlled the people whohad to live on it, for man is a land animal, and can notlive apart from land any more than fishes can live ata distance from water. And moreover we tax for theimprovements on land, thus really placing a penaltyon enterprise. The article attracted attention, and opened the eyesof one man at least—and that was the
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