Excerpt from The Ownership, Tenure and Taxation of Land: Some Facts, Fallacies and Proposals Relating Thereto
It is not pretended that this book is a work of original research. It is rather a bringing together of such statistical and historical information as is available, and a discussion of it, and of the economic, fiscal, and ethical principles and problems which bear upon the distinct and limited subjects - the ownership, tenure, and taxation of land - with which the volume is concerned.
This information and the discussion of these principles are at present scattered over a very wide area of books, papers, and reports. They are so intermingled with, and often practically buried in, masses of figures, records, and detailed information, and in dissertations on principles ranging over a far wider field, that, except to students and specialists, they are comparatively little known.
My object has been to present these facts and principles as they arrange themselves in my mind, together with a statement of what appear to me to be the proper conclusions to be drawn from them. I have stated the position from the point of view of one who claims to be an average man who has had a fairly wide experience of men and thing Bin private and public affairs and business, and who has devoted a considerable amount of time to an endeavour to ascertain the facts and arrive at sound conclusions with regard to the subject here considered.
This has been done in the scattered intervals which have been snatched from a very fully occupied life, and no one is more conscious than I am of the imperfections which must result from those conditions.
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