Henry George, Edward Bellamy and Andrew Carnegie
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Kevin Comtois
WeiYun Huang History Essay 1 – Henry George, Edward Bellamy and Andrew Carnegie Henry George use 18 months to complete his book which named is Progress and Poverty in San Francisco. When he submitted his book to D. Appleton and Co, they didn’t accept his book. Then Henry George turn to his printer friend who named is William Hinton. William Hinton let Henry George use his shop. At first, Henry George’s son and Henry George’s printer friends help Henry George copy 500 copies of his book and just sold $3 per copy. In 1880, they brought out a commercial edition. Even though the book sold slowly at early time, but finally Henry George made all American people be interested in his book and caused a huge influence in American. In Henry George’s book Progress and Poverty there shows a main idea that is government should try to manage the most of the rent income from land and allocate these rent income to all the people. If we don’t do like this, then Henry George mention a very clear consequence that is once the benefits of our modern society developed just for individuals’ income but not for the society, then the gap between wealthy families and poverty families will become more disparity. At that time, progress is not real progress, also it is difficult to sustain. Also Henry George mention the relationship between progress and poverty, he think progress can’t escape poverty, actually, it produces poverty. The society just like a triangle, even though it have progress, but the progress is not from the bottom, it from middle. Edward Bellamy’s novel < looking backward> got a great success, it total sales is over half a million of copies. This novel described a youth from Bosnia after sleeping 113 years, finally waked up in 2000. When he waked up, he found the ideal of socialism has been established. From Edward Bellamy’s novel , we can it mention a specific nationwide plans of industrial organization that is all
Kevin Comtois
WeiYun Huang History Essay 1 – Henry George, Edward Bellamy and Andrew Carnegie Henry George use 18 months to complete his book which named is Progress and Poverty in San Francisco. When he submitted his book to D. Appleton and Co, they didn’t accept his book. Then Henry George turn to his printer friend who named is William Hinton. William Hinton let Henry George use his shop. At first, Henry George’s son and Henry George’s printer friends help Henry George copy 500 copies of his book and just sold $3 per copy. In 1880, they brought out a commercial edition. Even though the book sold slowly at early time, but finally Henry George made all American people be interested in his book and caused a huge influence in American. In Henry George’s book Progress and Poverty there shows a main idea that is government should try to manage the most of the rent income from land and allocate these rent income to all the people. If we don’t do like this, then Henry George mention a very clear consequence that is once the benefits of our modern society developed just for individuals’ income but not for the society, then the gap between wealthy families and poverty families will become more disparity. At that time, progress is not real progress, also it is difficult to sustain. Also Henry George mention the relationship between progress and poverty, he think progress can’t escape poverty, actually, it produces poverty. The society just like a triangle, even though it have progress, but the progress is not from the bottom, it from middle. Edward Bellamy’s novel < looking backward> got a great success, it total sales is over half a million of copies. This novel described a youth from Bosnia after sleeping 113 years, finally waked up in 2000. When he waked up, he found the ideal of socialism has been established. From Edward Bellamy’s novel , we can it mention a specific nationwide plans of industrial organization that is all