"Leon MacLaren, Chairman of the School of Economic Science of London, England, in a letter to the Henry George School in New York, writes of continued activity in spite of the hazards and difficulties caused by the war. The School of Economic Science is now functioning in London, Stoke-on-Trent, Manchester and Bath. Mr. MacLaren says: 'We expect to open School centres in Liverpool and Ipswich this Summer. The branch we had originally in Ipswich faded away under the bombardment but no doubt the work done then will greatly assist us in establishing the new centre'."

"When I was thus swept into the great Socialist revival of 1883 I found that five-sixths of those who were swept in with me had been converted by Henry George. This fact would have been far more widely acknowledged had it not been that it was not possible for us to stop where Henry George stopped."

"I am deeply interested in the proceedings of the ... Conference... I would gladly have taken advantage to be preseent, but it is impossible for me to be in the South for some little time. ...During my brief stay in theIslandof Islay I had an opportunity of inspeting the ruins ofsome small villages, and many cottages where at one timelived and moved the men and women who produced their living from the soil. Large patches of landonce productive are now lying waste. My experience has made me more determined than ever to denounce the present cursed system of land ownership in this country."

"Speaking at a meeting in Bradford on 9th November, Mr. Philip Snowden, a representative Yorkshire Socialist, declared that the taxation of land values was fraught with very grave difficulties, and would tend, perhaps, to inflict great hardships upon a portion of the community. The best method of raising the rates was not by the taxation of land values, but by a tax upon all income and profits."

"It will not be possible for me to attend the International conference which is to beheld in Edinburg at the end of this month, but I send you just a few words to express the hope that the Conference will be useful in stimulating international interest in the co-related questions of Land Values and International Free Trade."

"The present condition of the world, both politically and economically, provides the most striking evidence of the urgent need for the restoration of the freedom of commerce and the liberation of the land and its resources from exclusive monopoly. ..."The danger of war which is threatening the world to-day is fundamentally the land question. Freedom of access to land, and opportunity for all, both nations and individuals, will remove the main cause of war and suicidal nationalism."

"I believe a gradual abolition of the private monopoly of natural resources through the taxation of land values is the most potent remedy for the evil distribution which is the cause of poverty and distress."

" Rent is defined as the share of the produce which can be secured (under free competition) by those who are allowed to exercise rights of proprietorship over natural objects and forces."
"... it is evident that all wealth comes ultimately from the land."
"...The fundamental cause which enables landowners to obtain rent is the difference in fertility and utility that exists between the various portions of the earth's surface. ...It may be stated as a general truth, that whatever tends to bring fresh and inferior lands under cultivation, tends also to raise the rents of all land previously cultivated. Tus when a community advances in wealth and population there is a rise in rents, unless some counterbalancing force is operating."
"...The rent of land for building purposes in towns is subject to the same law as that of agricultural land; only that we should have to speak of the difference in convenience instead of the difference of produce."
"... in reality all rent in the politico-economic sense is 'unearned'; for it is by its very definition a payment made for gifts of nature, and not for the produce of labour."