Spencer Heath Archive

Item 1508

Letter to John C. Lincoln, Phoenix, Arizona

January 17, 1954

Dear Mr. Lincoln:

     I hope you will pardon my impertinence if you will so regard it, but in view of your proved capacity for thinking in terms of fundamentals as regards your own particular business, I am constrained to believe that you may be capable of entertaining some more fundamental views on the nature of a free society and its processes than were entertained by Thomas Malthus and David Ricardo, the logical implications of which were accepted by John Stuart Mill and so eloquently popularized by Henry George.

     I am therefore sending you a copy of “Progress & Poverty Reviewed and its Fallacies Exposed” with supplemen­tal discussion, and also a mimeographed article touching upon recent publications in the Freeman Magazine refer­ring to the Single Tax.

     Please do not feel under obligation to make any reply or acknowledgement.

Yours very truly,