 | Henry George - Economics - 1879 - 600 pages
...local circumstances, but are, in some way or another, engendered by progress itself. And, unpleasant as it may be to admit it, it is at last becoming evident...between Dives and Lazarus, and makes the struggle for existence more intense. The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago... | |
 | Henry George - 1882 - 104 pages
...circumstances, but are, in some way or another, engendered by progress itself. And, unpleasant as it mar be to admit it, it is at last becoming evident that...the gulf between Dives and Lazarus, and makes the straggle for existence more intense. The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which... | |
 | Alfred Edersheim - 1882 - 398 pages
...15.) As a recent writer has remarked, in a book which has attracted much attention : — " Unpleasant as it may be to admit it, it is at last becoming evident...that the enormous increase in productive power which ваз marked the present century, and is still going on with accelerating ratio, has no tendency to... | |
 | James Platt - Conduct of life - 1883 - 538 pages
...£72,968,000 Does this increase of £44,940,000 belong to the landowners ? Does it not disprove the assertion that "the enormous increase in productive power which...no tendency to extirpate poverty, or to lighten the burden of those compelled to toil" (HKSBT GEOBGE) ? The capital of co-operative societies has increased... | |
 | Henry George - Distribution (Economic theory) - 1882 - 104 pages
...local circumstances, but are, in some way or another, engendered by progress itself. And, unpleasant as it may be to admit it, it is at last becoming evident...which has marked the present century and is still geing on with accelerating ratio, has no tendency to extirpate poverty or to lighten the burdens of... | |
 | Washington Gladden - Christian sociology - 1886 - 350 pages
...pauperism, is increasing still more rapidly. " Unpleasant as it may be to admit it," says a late writer, " it is at last becoming evident that the enormous increase...between Dives and Lazarus, and makes the struggle for existence more intense. The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which, a century... | |
 | H. W. Bowman - Economic history - 1897 - 528 pages
...pauperism, is increasing still more rapidly. '"Unpleasant as it may be to admit it,' says a late writer, ' it is at last becoming evident that the enormous increase...between Dives and Lazarus, and makes the struggle for existence more intense. The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which, a century... | |
 | James Edson White - End of the world - 1911 - 336 pages
...country now than during the war." Mr. Henry George, in " Progress and Poverty," says : — " Unpleasant as it may be to admit it, it is at last becoming evident...between Dives and Lazarus, and makes the struggle for existence more intense. The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago... | |
 | Louis Freeland Post - Land value taxation - 1912 - 174 pages
...however, we are coming into collision with facts which there can be no mistaking. . . And, unpleasant as it may be to admit it, it is at last becoming evident that the enormous increase of productive power which has marked the present century and is still going on with accelerating ratio,... | |
 | Sir Thomas Palmer Whittaker - Land - 1914 - 616 pages
...of wages to increase with increasing productive power is due to the increase of rent." " Unpleasant as it may be to admit it, it is at last becoming evident...to lighten the burdens of those compelled to toil." — HENRY GEORGE. " It is an instructive fact as to the power of abstract fallacies over the human... | |
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And, unpleasant as it may be to admit it, it is at last becoming evident that the enormous increase in productive power which has marked the present century and is still going on with accelerating ratio, has no tendency to extirpate poverty or to lighten... 
