David Pecotic Read not the Times. Read the Eternities. Or at least the not completely Untimely … Prof. Hudson’s tour pushed the team – we endeavour to return you to our regularly scheduled program minus technical glitches soon. Web 2.0: data.australia.gov.au – beta [The Gov 2.0 Taskforce has launched a website that brings together around 59 datasets from Australian Federal, … Read More
Henry George, Dr. Edward McGlynn, and Pope Leo XIII
Prof. Mason Gaffney
A paper delivered to International Conference on Henry George, November 1, 1997, at Cooper Union, New York; Professor Edward O’Donnell, Chair
Revised, November 22, 1997
1. Turbulent times
It was a different time, but often the same place (Cooper Union) in American life. No, it wasn’t radio, but the age of orators. One of the most spellbinding was Dr. Edward McGlynn; another good one was Henry George, who also wrote great books. They came together in 1886 to roil the waters of American politics and ideology. Through the Irish and Vatican connections, they also roiled world politics and ideology.
Winston Churchill on Site Rating
LAND PRICE AS A CAUSE OF POVERTY
Winston Churchill’s Speech in the House of Commons, 4 May 1909, in response to Mr AJ Balfour, Leader of the Opposition
The immemorial custom of nearly every modern State, the mature conclusions of many of the greatest thinkers, have placed the tenure, transfer, and obligations of land in a wholly different category from other classes of property. The mere obvious physical distinction between land, which is a vital necessity of every human being and which at the same time is strictly limited in extent, and other property is in itself sufficient to justify a clear differentiation in its treatment, and in the view taken by the State of the conditions which should govern the tenure of land from that which should regulate traffic in other forms of property.
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