 | 1897 - 872 sayfa
...some might be purchased for $ 1,000 an acre. ' Like a flash,' says the author. ' it came upon me that with the growth of population land grows in value,...it must pay more for the privilege. I turned back, amid quiet thought. The perception that then came to me has been with me ever since.' In 1880 G. removed... | |
 | Henry George - 1900 - 682 sayfa
...know exactly, but there is a man over there who will sell some land for a thousand dollars an acre.' Like a flash it came upon me that there was the reason...then came to me and has been with me ever since." This truth was to dwell in his thoughts and slowly develop for a year and a half, when it should burst... | |
 | Louis Freeland Post - 1904 - 100 sayfa
...know exactly, but there is a man over there who will sell some land for a thousand dollars an acre." Like a flash it came upon me that there was the reason...men who work it must pay more for the privilege."* *Library edition of the Works of Henry George. " The life of Henry George," by Henry George. Jr., p.... | |
 | Benjamin Orange Flower - 1912 - 738 sayfa
...'I don't know exactly, but there is a man over there who will sell sonic land for $1,000 an acre.' Like a flash it came upon me that there was the reason...land grows in value, and the men who work it must pay for the privilege of working it. I turned back, amidst quiet thought, to the perception that then came... | |
 | George Wharton James - 1910 - 628 sayfa
...not better, but worse. Or, later, as he himself states it : " Like a flash it came upon me that . . . with the growth of population, land grows in value,...men who work it must pay more for the privilege." This was the beginning of the thought that was to grow and expand until it changed the destinies of... | |
 | Peter Alexander Speek - 1917 - 194 sayfa
...the consideration of which led him finally to his *' great discovery", described by him as follows: "Like a flash it came upon me that there was the reason for increasing poverty with advancing wealth. With the growth of population, lands grow in value, and... | |
 | 1926 - 554 sayfa
...know exactly, but there is a man over there who will sell some land for a thousand dollars an acre.' Like a flash it came upon me that there was the reason...then came to me and has been with me ever since." Henry George had solved the riddle of the Sphinx. In 1869 he had grasped the great principle which... | |
 | 1925 - 104 sayfa
...know exactly, but there is a man over there who will sell some land for a thousand dollars an acre.' Like a flash it came upon me that there was the reason...then came to me and has been with me ever since." knowledge of what economists had taught but keen perception of what they had failed to understand or... | |
 | Robert Carroll McMath (Jr.), Robert C. McMath, Jr. - 1993 - 258 sayfa
...family. The explanation for the nation's ills and his own appeared to George in a moment of conversion: "Like a flash it came upon me that there was the reason for advancing poverty with advancing wealth. With the growth of population land grows in value, and... | |
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Like a flash it came upon me that there was the reason of advancing poverty with advancing wealth. With the growth of population, land grows in value, and the men who work it must pay more for the privilege. I turned back, amidst quiet thought, to the... 
