 | Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends (1853-1940) - 1873 - Broj stranica: 860
..." The association of poverty with progress," says Henry George, "is the great enigma of our times. So long as all the increased wealth, which modern...to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury, and make sharper the contrast between the house of have and the house of want, progress is not real and... | |
 | Henry George - 1879 - Broj stranica: 600
...clouds that overhang the future of the most progressive and self-reliant nations. It is the riddle which the Sphinx of Fate puts to our civilization,...to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury and make sharper the contrast between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and... | |
 | 1879 - Broj stranica: 730
...clouds that overhang the future of the most progressive and self-reliant nations. It is the riddle which the Sphinx of Fate puts to our civilization,...to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury, and make sharper the contrast between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and... | |
 | 1880 - Broj stranica: 902
...clouds that overhang the future of the most progressive and self-reliant nations. It is the riddle which the Sphinx of Fate puts to our civilization,...destroyed. So long as all the increased wealth which modem progress brings goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury, and make sharper the... | |
 | George Basil Dixwell - 1882 - Broj stranica: 58
...tend to a minimum which will give but a bare living ? " which Mr. George propounds as " the riddle which the Sphinx of Fate puts to our civilization, and which not to answer is to be destroyed," — this question appears to have no existence out of his imagination. Wages, fees, salaries, emoluments... | |
 | Henry George - 1882 - Broj stranica: 104
...progressive and self-reliant nations. It is the riddle which the Sphinx of Fate puts to our civilisation, and which not to answer is to be destroyed. So long as all the increased wealth which modem progress brings goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury, and make sharper the... | |
 | Henry George - 1882 - Broj stranica: 104
...progressive and self-reliant nations. It is the riddle which the Sphinx of Fate puts to our civilisation, and which not to answer is to be destroyed. So long...to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury, and make sharper the contrast between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and... | |
 | 1883 - Broj stranica: 606
...From it come the clouds that overhang the future of the most self-reliant nations. It is the riddle which the Sphinx of Fate puts to our civilization, and which not to answer is to be destroyed.' Mr. George in his present volume undertakes to answer it. He engages to show us, not only why poverty... | |
 | John Michels (Journalist) - 1887 - Broj stranica: 742
...association of poverty with progress." says Henry George, "is the great enigma of our times. It is the riddle which the Sphinx of Fate puts to our civilization, and which not to answer is to be destroyed." Can the riddle of the modern sphinx be solved? Can the diseases of society be remedied ? While I am... | |
 | George Basil Dixwell - 1883 - Broj stranica: 240
...wages tend to a minimum which will give but a bare living ?" which Mr. George propounds as " the riddle which the Sphinx of Fate puts to our civilization, and which not to answer is to be destroyed,"— this question appears to have no existence out of his imagination. Wages, fees, salaries, emoluments... | |
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So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury and make sharper the contrast between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent. 
