The Nationalisation of the Land (Classic Reprint)

Reprinted, by permission, from the Contemporary Review. UP till recent years no such phrase as the Nationalisation of the Land was heard in England. It is doubtful if the idea it conveys was even intelligible to the mass of the people. In other countries it may possibly have been used as a symbol of extreme socialistic theories, but to all intents and purposes it is only within the last three or four years that the group of ideas indicated by this novel term has taken any hold of the average British mind. It can, however, no longer be said that those ideas lie outside the scope of public discussion: though it is true that very few of our leading statesmen have deigned to notice them, and, though few publicists of any weight have lent their advocacy to the cause, it cannot be denied that they are making way among considerable classes of the community, especially the artizans of our great towns. This rapid progress is no doubt owing very much to the wide circulation of that remarkable book by Henry George, of A merica, entitled Progress and Poverty, a book which I shall treat in this paper as the chief exponent of those views. It appears to me that our leading statesmen must no longer keep silence on this subject.
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