Author’s note: This work departs from the traditional essay format. It presents a series of personal annotations and critical reflections inspired by excerpts from Henry George’s seminal text, Progress and Poverty. Certain excerpts will be presented without additional commentary, allowing the power of George’s prose to speak for itself; for...
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A Lament
How lonely is the branch with no bird to give perch,
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Children of Prometheus
Heaven determined that the cosmos be like a frozen sea,
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Suitors of the Sun
Author’s note: This poem was inspired by a quote attributed to Napoleon from a book I’d recently finished titled “Mind of Napoleon” compiled by J. Christopher Herold. “Everybody has loved me and hated me; everybody has taken me up, dropped me, and taken me up again. … Only this was...
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Willful Arrogance
There is a certain arrogance in man,
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