Progress and Poverty, Volumes I and II An Inquiry into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth

CHAPTER IV.—OF THE CHANGES THAT WOULD BE WROUGHT IN SOCIAL

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ORGANIZATION AND SOCIAL LIFE.

I cannot play upon any stringed instrument; but I can tell you how of a little village to make a great and glorious city.—_Themistocles._

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Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree.

And they shall build houses and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards and eat the fruit of them. They shall not build and another inhabit; they shall not plant and another eat.—_Isaiah._