His Life and Teaching '
C. R. Fay , D.Sc.
A hundred years ago today Henry George , the American economist, was born at Philadetphia. In his day George's philosophy was enormously popular in both the United States and Europe, and he still has an organised band of followers. George was the apostle of land nationalisation, and his ' single land tax' or ' tax on rents '. conceived in the days of the Go)d Rush in California when iand values soared, is stnl widely supported both in this country and the U.S.A.