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CONTENTS.
Book VI.—The Remedy.
Chapter I.--Insufficiency of remedies currently advocated 297
II.--The true remedy 326
Book VII.—Justice of the Remedy.
Chapter I.--Injustice of private property in land 331
II.--Enslavement of laborers the ultimate result of private property in land 345
III.—Claim of land owners to compensation 356
IV.—Property in land historically considered 366
V.—Property in land in the United States 383
Book VIII.—Application of the Remedy.
Chapter I.—Private property in land inconsistent with the best use of land 395
II.—How equal rights to the land may be asserted and secured 401
III.—The proposition tried by the canons of taxation 406
IV.—Indorsements and objections 420
Book IX.—Effects of the Remedy.
Chapter I.—Of the effect upon the production of wealth 431
II.—Of the effect upon distribution and thence upon production 438
III.—Of the effect upon individuals and classes 445
IV.—Of the changes that would be wrought in social organization and social life 452
Book X.—The Law of Human Progress.
Chapter I.—The current theory of human progress—its insufficiency 473
II.—Differences in civilization—to what due 487
III.—The law of human progress 503
IV.—How modern civilization may decline 524
V.—The central truth 541
Conclusion.
The problem of individual life 553