Poverty (1884)

POVERTY has been one of the most difficult social problems of all ages. How to lessen it has been the aim of every good man in every country ; how to " extirpate it," how to make men equal, has been the dream of those who will not recognize the inevitable and strive after what is practicable. And the last attempt by Mr. George gives us, as the " sole and sovereign remedy," a scheme of confiscation, the taking by the law of property, which society, opinion, law, is bound to preserve for its ...