 This — and in previous chapters of this book we have traced the process, step by step — is what is going on in the civilized world to-day. Private ownership of land is the nether millstone. Material progress is the upper millstone. Between them, with...  The Vision Splendid: A Story of To-day - Page 71by William MacLeod Raine - 1913 - 331 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Henry George - 1879 - 600 pages
...book we have traced the process, step by step — is what is going on in the civilized world to-day. Private ownership of land is the nether millstone....increasing pressure, the working classes are being ground. CHAPTER III. CLAIM OF LAND OWNERS TO COMPENSATION. The truth is, and from this truth there can be no... | |
 | Henry George - 1882 - 104 pages
...book we have traced the process, step by step — is what is going on in the civilised world to-day. Private ownership of land is the nether mill-stone....mill-stone. Between them, with an increasing pressure, the workingclasses are being ground. CHAPTER III. CLAIM OP LAND OWNERS TO COMPENSATION. THE truth is, and... | |
 | Moses Lewis Scudder - 1887 - 176 pages
...Declarations of Independence and Acts of Emancipation are in vain. ********* Private ownership in lands is the nether mill-stone. Material progress is the...increasing pressure, the working classes are being ground." Same book and page, Chapter III. begins : "The truth is, and from this truth there can be no escape,... | |
 | George Shaw-Lefevre Baron Eversley - 1893 - 350 pages
...of the pick, every thrust of the shuttle, every throb of the steam engine, pays its tribute. . . . Private ownership of land is the nether mill-stone....increasing pressure the working classes are being ground." * When, however, Mr. George explains the practical details of his scheme for remedying these evils,... | |
 | Henry George - 1900 - 600 pages
...civilized world to-day. Private ownership of land is the nether millstone. Material progress is tho upper millstone. Between them, with an increasing pressure, the working classes are being ground. CHAPTER III. CLAIM OF LAND OWNERS TO COMPENSATION. The truth is, and from this truth there can be no... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - 1901 - 426 pages
...book we have traced the process, step by step — is what is going on in the civilized world to-day. Private ownership of land is the nether millstone....increasing pressure, the working classes are being ground. EDWARD GIBBON. EDWARD GIBBON, a great English historian, born at Putney, Surrey, April 27, 1737 ; died... | |
 | Nicola Gigliotti - 1918 - 104 pages
...the use of land, then does the ownership of men involved in the ownership of land become absolute. Private ownership of land is the nether millstone....increasing pressure, the working classes are being ground. Historically as ethically, private property in land is robbery. It has everywhere had its birth in... | |
 | 1928 - 552 pages
...the use of land, then does the ownership of men involved in the ownership of land become absolute. Private ownership of land is the nether millstone....with an increasing pressure, the working classes are ground. Historically, as ethically, private property in land is robbery. It has everywhere had its... | |
 | 1910 - 620 pages
...on, must grow and deepen! This is what is going on in the civilized world today. Private property in land is the nether millstone. Material progress is the upper millstone. Between them, with an ever-increasing pressure, the working classes are being ground. * • * The majority of men in civilized... | |
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