An examination of Herbert Spencer's various utterances on the land question, with some incidental reference to his Synthetic Philosophy. Henry George (1839-1897), was a newspaperman, economist, and the author of Progress and Poverty, (1879) as well as a number of other books. He believed that a single tax on land would meet all the costs of government and even leave a surplus, besides unburdening labor and capital of taxes on their output. His theories have influenced tax legislation in Australia and in parts of Canada, and in certain nations of western Europe.