Word: gradualness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...discriminating tax would be, (a) practicable, (b) efficient, (c), beneficial to the masses.- 1. By annihilation of selling value and its speculative element. 2. The burden of taxation on productive industry would thus be considerably lightened. 3. By the gradual abolition of poverty-The Land and the Community, pp. 147-173; Lippincott, March 1887, p. 491; George's Progress and Poverty, pp. 389-408; The Nineteenth Century...
...will not ruin nor seriously injure present landholders. 2. Compensation is overruled by controlling principle.- Thackery, pp. 186-197. 3. Difficulties of accomplishment overcome, (a) by gradual change, (b) by granting the necessary power to congress.- Clarke, pp. 39-41, 4. No further centralization of power is involved; (a) the government is already a large landholder.- Thackeray's The Land and the Community, pp. 138, 174-185, George's Progress and Poverty...
...Towers," is the latest and undoubtedly the best work of Mr. Thomas Bailey Aldrich. Competent critics have declared it the best poem that America has produced for many years. The most striking characteristic of this work is the beauty of the diction, especially in the lines descriptive of the gradual decay of the old castle and of the break of day. The author never lacks for picturesque phrases. The tale is placed in the Elizabethan are and, as hinted in the preface, the method of the author is obviously influenced by his study of the poets and dramatists of that...