What Henry George thinks about war

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American political economist (1839 to 1897); author of Progress and Poverty.

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1. c. 1877–1880

   Our readingWant blamed on overpopulation is really caused by war, tyranny and oppression

   Their wordsWhat I say is this: that nowhere is there any instance which will support this theory; that nowhere can want be properly attributed to the pressure of population against the power to procure subsistence in the then existing degree of human knowledge; that everywhere the vice and misery attributed to over-population can be traced to the warfare, tyranny, and oppression which prevent knowledge from being utilized and deny the security essential to production.

   ↗Progress and Poverty (1879; Memorial Edition)gutenberg.org All 20 from this book