spring up and to develop into a stately tree, yielding its life-giving fruits, offering the welcome protection of its branches to all seeking rest and shelter beneath its shade.  To-day the thought that inspired Winstanley has again been proclaimed by one greater than Winstanley, and is slowly but surely remoulding the social thought of the world.  Thanks to the genius of Henry George, the more thoughtful and ethical-minded of our race are gradually coming to realise that, to use Winstanley’s words—­“True Commonwealth’s Freedom lies in the free enjoyment of the Earth”; and that if they would remove those remediable social ills which harass, haunt and warp our advancing civilisation, the use of the Earth and a share in the bounties and blessings of Nature must be secured to each and all upon equitable terms and conditions.  Hence it is that we feel impelled to close our notice of the great Apostle of Social Justice and Economic Freedom of the Seventeenth Century with the following eloquent and soul-stirring words of his still greater successor of the Nineteenth Century, words which almost seem but as an echo of his own, even though many of us even to-day may have yet to learn to appreciate their full force, meaning and truth: 

“In our time, as in times before, creep on the insidious forces that, producing inequality, destroy Liberty.  On the horizon the clouds begin to lower.  Liberty calls to us again.  We must follow her further; we must trust her fully.  Either we must wholly accept her or she will not stay.  It is not enough that men should vote; it is not enough that they should be theoretically equal before the law.  They must have liberty to avail themselves of the opportunities and means of life; they must stand on equal terms with reference to the bounties of nature.  Either this, or Liberty withdraws her light!  Either this, or darkness comes on, and the very forces that progress has evolved turn to powers that work destruction.  This is the universal law.  This is the lesson of the centuries.  Unless its foundations be laid in justice the social structure cannot stand.”

END.

FOOTNOTES: 

[228:1] Published under the title, The Condition of Labour (Swan, Sonnenschein & Co., London).

[232:1] The following are some of such pirated publications:  Articles of High Treason. British Museum, Press Mark, E. 521. A Declaration for Freedom. E. 321. The Levellers Remonstrance. E. 652. 12.

APPENDIX A

THE FUNDAMENTAL AND JUST CHIEF ARTICLES OF ALL THE PEASANTRY AND VILLEINS BY WHICH THEY DEEM THEMSELVES OPPRESSED

INTRODUCTION.