FOOTNOTES:

[132:1] King's Pamphlets. British Museum, Press Mark, E. 587.

[133:1] In deference to prevailing conventionalities, we have ventured
to alter this line.

[137:1] In the next chapter we shall learn something of those "Diggers
that have caused scandal," and whose actions and views Winstanley found
it necessary to disown.




CHAPTER XIII

A VINDICATION; A DECLARATION; AND AN APPEAL

"There is but one way to remove an evil--and that is to remove its
cause. Poverty deepens as wealth increases, and wages are forced
down while productive power grows, because land, which is the
source of all wealth and the field of all labour, is monopolised.
To extirpate poverty, to make wages what justice demands they
should be, the full earnings of the labourer, we must therefore
substitute for the individual ownership of land a common ownership.
Nothing else will go to the cause of the evil--in nothing else is
there the slightest hope."--HENRY GEORGE, 1877-1878.


In the pamphlet we have considered in the previous chapter we heard that