| Show THE BIBLE AND LAND landa FEW theorists have so quickly drawn the attention of so many people to their ideas as has henry george hit his doctrines respecting land its ownership and taxation and cognate principles of political economy have commanded the thoughtful consideration of multitudes of readers thinkers and workers the civilized world is fast coming to feel that there is something wrong at the basis of its civilization for or gross injustice reigns everywhere notwithstanding the boasted enlightenment of df the age land and the vaunted perfection coe science of law which claims to a remedy for every wrong henry george has sought to show wherein modern modem civilization errs in its ita fundamental principles and some great truths glimmer among his bis tho theories orles which however contains contain a admixture of error and lack the keys areat ays eys by which alone the truth in its simplicity and purity parity can be disclosed As was to be expected other writers are following in the wake of henry george endeavoring to correct his bis errors and improve upon his theories the result is the accumulating of a literature containing a carious melange of truth and error acumen and ignorance I 1 wisdom and tolly folly one of the latest additions to this class of literature is a small book entitled the bible and land written b by rev james B converse and published g by the author at morristown tenn tenni a leading new york publishing house bouse having rejected the we have only seen a brief synopsis of the work stat stating ling its leading ideas from which we infer that on original line of thought has been pursued by its author in the treatment of the laud land question that is original so far as the literature of the world affords material t to 0 copy or elaborate but it is apparent apt P arent that the teachings of the prophet prop P het joseph smith have consciously or unconsciously to the author found their way into his book though biked up with error the fundamental fundament alidea idea of bis theory and the one which he holfis holds to be the basic principle of M all true political economy is that the ownership of land vests in god in support of this proposition mr converse appeals to the scriptures with a result which is of course irresistible sis tible to the bible as being what it purports to be this bookis is written in answer to progress and poverty by henry george and is intensely antagonistic thereto Without it i 6 an look ite examination of the work itself it would probably be unjust ast to pass an opinion respecting its worth but it is likely that abat its main value lies iles in its character as an indication of the drift of modern thought upon the subject which it treats of and of the spread of the great truths introduced to the present age of the world through joseph the seer |
