CHAPTER II.—OF THE EFFECT UPON DISTRIBUTION AND THENCE UPON PRODUCTION.
CHAPTER III.—OF THE EFFECT UPON INDIVIDUALS AND CLASSES.
CHAPTER IV.—OF THE CHANGES THAT WOULD BE WROUGHT IN SOCIAL ORGANIZATION AND SOCIAL LIFE.
I cannot play upon any stringed instrument; but I can tell you how of a little village to make a great and glorious city.—Themistocles.
Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree.
And they shall build houses and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards and eat the fruit of them. They shall not build and another inhabit; they shall not plant and another eat.—Isaiah.
CHAPTER I.
OF THE EFFECT UPON THE PRODUCTION OF WEALTH.
The elder Mirabeau, we are told, ranked the proposition of Quesnay, to substitute one single tax on rent (the impôt unique) for all other taxes, as a discovery equal in utility to the invention of writing or the substitution of the use of money for barter.