government by the strong and unscrupulous" ("Social Problems"). In Mr. George's later book "he has had the courage of his opinions, and the logic of false premises has steeped his moral sense against the iniquity of even the most dishonourable conclusions. All National Debts are as unjust as property in land ; all such debts are to be treated with the sponge. As no faith is due to landowners, or to any who depend on their sources of income, so neither is any faith to be kept with bondholders, or with any who depend on the revenues which have been pledged to them. The Jew who may have lent a million, and the small tradesman who may have lent his little savings to the State, the trust funds of children and of widows which have been similarly lent, are all equally to be the victims of repudiation. ..... Everything in America is on a gigantic scale, even in its form of villainy; and the villainy advocated by Mr. George is an illustration of this as striking as the Mammoth Caves of Kentucky, or the frauds of the celebrated 'Tammany Thug' in New York. The world has never seen such a preacher of unrighteousness as Mr. Henry George...... There has seldom been such a curious example as the immoral teachings of Mr. Henry George. Here we have a man who probably sincerely thinks he is a Christian, and who sets up as a philosopher, but who is not the least shocked by consequences which abolish the Decalogue, and deny the primary obligations both of public and of private honour" (Nineteenth Century, April, 1834: ARGYLL.)