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CONTENTS 
CHAPTER PAGE 
ITI.—Effect of improvements in the arts upon the distribu- 
tionofwealth . . . . . , . , . . . . . 244 
1V.—Effect of the expectation raised by material progress . 255 
Book V.—Tur ProsLeM SoLvED 
I.—The primary cause of recurring paroxysms of industrial 
depression . . . . . . , [J , . . . . . 263 
IT.—The persistence of poverty amid advancing wealth . . 282 
Boor VI.—Tuar REMEDY 
L—Insufficiency of remedies currently advocated . . . 299 
II.—The true remedy . . . . . . . 328 
Book VII.—Justice oF THE REMEDY 
I—Injustico of private property inland . . . . . 
II.—Enslavement of laborers the ultimate result of private 
property in land a 
TII.—Claim of land owners to compensation. . . . 
IV.—Property in land historically considered . 
V.—Properly in land in the United States . 
347 
358 
368 
385 
Book VIII.—APPLICATION OF THE REMEDY 
TFrigats property in land inconsistent with the best use 
ofland. . . , . . 0... LL. 
II.—How equal rights to the land may bs asserted and 
seered 0. , LL. LL... LL. 
[IT.—The proposition tried by the canons of taxation , 
IV.—Indorsernents and objections , . . , . 
397 
403 
408 
422 
Book IX.—Errrers oF THE REMEDY 
L—Of the effect upon the production of wealth . . . . 433 
IL.—Of the effect upon distribution and thence upon pro- 
duction... . , . .. , . . ,. . 440 
III.—Of the effect upon individuals and classes . , , . 447 
IV.—Of the changes that would be wrought in social organi- 
gation and social life . . . 454 
Book X.—Tur Law oF HuMAN ProGrEss 
I.—The current theory of human i insufficiency 475 
I1.—Differences in civilization—to what due Lo... 489 
[II.—The law of human progress . . . 500 
IV.—How modern civilization may decline 527 
V.—The central truth . . . . 544 
CONCLUSION 
The problem of individual life . . 
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