Spencer Heath Archive

Item 1812

Fragment inserted as bookmark at page 288 of Henry George, Science of Political Economy, Book II, Doubleday 1904.

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     Henry George did not know that contract and consent is the only free relationship, in any positive or practicing sense of the word, nor that contracts can be made with respect to such things as are owned. He thought ownership (of land) not essential but inimical to free relationships. When he cited a leasehold as use without ownership he