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• Other Books By Henry George
• Introduction to the Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition of "progress and Poverty"
• Preface to Fourth Edition
• Introductory the Problem
• Introductory the Problem
• Book I Wages and Capital
• Chapter I the Current Doctrine of Wages—its Insufficiency
• Chapter Ii the Meaning of the Terms
• Chapter Iii Wages Not Drawn From Capital, But Produced By the Labor
• Chapter Iv the Maintenance of Laborers Not Drawn From Capital
• Chapter V the Real Functions of Capital
• Book Ii Population and Subsistence
• Chapter I the Malthusian Theory, Its Genesis and Support
• Chapter Ii Inferences From Facts
• Chapter Iii Inferences From Analogy
• Chapter Iv Disproof of the Malthusian Theory
• Book Iii the Laws of Distribution
• Chapter I the Inquiry Narrowed to the Laws of Distribution—necessary Relation of These Laws
• Chapter Ii Rent and the Law of Rent
• Chapter Iii of Interest and the Cause of Interest
• Chapter Iv of Spurious Capital and of Profits Often Mistaken For Interest
• Chapter V the Law of Interest
• Chapter Vi Wages and the Law of Wages
• Chapter Vii the Correlation and Co-ordination of These Laws
• Chapter Viii the Statics of the Problem Thus Explained
• Book Iv Effect of Material Progress Upon the Distribution of Wealth
• Chapter I the Dynamics of the Problem Yet to Seek
• Chapter Ii the Effect of Increase of Population Upon the Distribution of Wealth
• Chapter Iii the Effect of Improvements In the Arts Upon the Distribution of Wealth
• Chapter Iv Effect of the Expectation Raised By Material Progress
• Book V the Problem Solved
• Chapter I the Primary Cause of Recurring Paroxysms of Industrial Depression
• Chapter Ii the Persistence of Poverty Amid Advancing Wealth
• Book Vi the Remedy
• Chapter I Insufficiency of Remedies Currently Advocated
• Chapter Ii the True Remedy
• Book Vii Justice of the Remedy
• Chapter I the Injustice of Private Property In Land
• Chapter Ii the Enslavement of Laborers the Ultimate Result of Private Property In Land
• Chapter Iii Claim of Land Owners to Compensation
• Chapter Iv Property In Land Historically Considered
• Chapter V of Property In Land In the United States
• Book Viii Application of the Remedy
• Chapter I Private Property In Land Inconsistent With the Best Use of Land
• Chapter Ii How Equal Rights to the Land May Be Asserted and Secured
• Chapter Iii the Proposition Tried By the Canons of Taxation
• Chapter Iv Indorsements and Objections
• Book IX. Effects of the Remedy: Chapter I of the Effect Upon the Production of Wealth
• Chapter Ii of the Effect Upon Distribution and Thence Upon Production
• Chapter Iii of the Effect Upon Individuals and Classes
• Chapter Iv of the Changes That Would Be Wrought In Social Organization and Social Life
• Book X. The Law of Human Progress: Chapter I the Current Theory of Human Progress—its Insufficiency
• Chapter Ii Differences In Civilization—to What Due
• Chapter Iii the Law of Human Progress
• Chapter Iv How Modern Civilization May Decline
• Chapter V the Central Truth
• Conclusion the Problem of Individual Life

Other Books by Henry George

The Science of Political Economy. 1 vol., 8vo, 62.50.

A Perplexed Philosopher. 12mo, cloth, 61.00; paper, 25 cents.

Social Problems. 12mo, cloth, 61.00; paper, 25 cents.

The land Question. Paper, 20 cents.

Property in Land. A Controversy with the Duke of Argyll. Paper, 20 cents.

The Condition of Labor. An Open Letter to Pope Leo XIII. 12mo, cloth, 75 cents; paper, 20 cents.

Property in Land, The Condition of Labor and The Land Question, bound together in one volume, 12 mo, cloth, 61,00.

Our Land and Land Policy. With Essays and Speeches. 1. vol., cloth, gilt top, 62.50.

Uniform Lbrary Edition of all these works, including The Life of Henry George by his son, 10 vols., 12mo, green buckram, gilt top, 617.00.

The Life of Menry George, by Henry George, Jr. 1 vol., cloth, 8 illustrations, 61.00.

Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1879
by henry george
in the office of the Librarian of Congress

The Country Life Press, Garden City, N.Y

To Those Who,
Seeing The Vice and Misery That Spring From
The Unequal Distribution
of Wealth and Privilege,
Feel The Possibility of a Higher Social State
and Would Strive for its Attainment

san francisco, March, 1879.

Make for thyself a definition or description of the thing which is presented to thee, so as to see distinctly what kind of a thing it is, in its substance, in its nudity, in its complete entirety, and tell thyself its proper name, and the names of the things of which it has been compounded, and into which it will be resolved. For nothing is so productive of elevation of mind as to be able to examine methodically and truly every object which is presented to thee in life, and always to look at things so as to see at the same time what kind of universe this is, and what kind of use everything performs in it, and what value everything has with reference to the whole, and what with reference to man, who is a citizen of the highest city, of which all other cities are like families; what each thing is, and of what it is composed, and how long it is the nature of this thing to endure.

—Marcus Aurelius Antoninus.