So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury and make sharper the contrast between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent.
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Original Citation
George, Henry. Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth: The Remedy. Doubleday, Page & Co., 1879, introductory.
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Current Citation
George, Henry. The Essence of Progress and Poverty. Dover Publications, 2020, ch. 1.
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