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Archibald Henderson, [[George Bernard Shaw]]'s biographer notes that Shaw credits George singly with his conversion to [[socialism]].<ref name=Henderson>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BBZXAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA96|last1=Henderson|first1=Archibald|title=George Bernard Shaw, his life and works|date=1911|publisher=Stewart & Kidd company|pages=96}}</ref>  At 15 years of age, Shaw was so profoundly impacted by Georgism that he studied [[Progress and Poverty]], started attending meetings of the Social Democratic Federation, and later studied the works of [[Karl Marx]].<ref name=Henderson />
 
Archibald Henderson, [[George Bernard Shaw]]'s biographer notes that Shaw credits George singly with his conversion to [[socialism]].<ref name=Henderson>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BBZXAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA96|last1=Henderson|first1=Archibald|title=George Bernard Shaw, his life and works|date=1911|publisher=Stewart & Kidd company|pages=96}}</ref>  At 15 years of age, Shaw was so profoundly impacted by Georgism that he studied [[Progress and Poverty]], started attending meetings of the Social Democratic Federation, and later studied the works of [[Karl Marx]].<ref name=Henderson />
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[[John Dewey]] described George as "one of the world's great social philosophers, certainly the greatest which this country has produced."<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kPBCD9H-vVcC&pg=PA302|last1=Dewey|first1=John|title=The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1933-1934|date=2008|publisher=SIU Press|pages=302}}</ref>  According to Daniel Bell, a former sociologist at [[Harvard]], "Henry George stands paramount in the authentic tradition of the great agrarian reformers of the United States."<ref>{{cite book|last1=Bell|first1=Daniel|title=Marxian Socialism in the United States|date=1996|publisher=Cornell University Press|pages=27}}</ref><ref name=smucker>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PH9gR5erxrwC&pg=PA104|last1=Smucker|first1=Donovan|title=Origins of Walter Rauschenbusch's Social Ethics|date=1994|publisher=McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP|pages=104}}</ref>  George also had a huge impact on [[Walter Rauschenbusch]], one of the largest figures of the early 20th century [[Social Gospel]] movement.<ref name=smucker />
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[[John Dewey]] described George as "one of the world's great social philosophers, certainly the greatest which this country has produced."<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kPBCD9H-vVcC&pg=PA302|last1=Dewey|first1=John|title=The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1933-1934|date=2008|publisher=SIU Press|pages=302}}</ref>  According to Daniel Bell, a former sociologist at [[Harvard]], "Henry George stands paramount in the authentic tradition of the great agrarian reformers of the United States."<ref>{{cite book|last1=Bell|first1=Daniel|title=Marxian Socialism in the United States|date=1996|publisher=Cornell University Press|pages=27}}</ref><ref name=smucker>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PH9gR5erxrwC&pg=PA104|last1=Smucker|first1=Donovan|title=Origins of Walter Rauschenbusch's Social Ethics|date=1994|publisher=McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP|pages=104}}</ref>  George also had a huge impact on [[Walter Rauschenbusch]], one of the largest figures of the early 20th century [[Social Gospel]] movement,<ref name=smucker /> and [[William Simon U'Ren]] became active in the Single Tax movement using [[Initiative, Referendum, and Recall]] as a means to push the Single Tax agenda.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=JQnZAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA21 Single Tax Conference, Held in New York City, November 19 and 20, 1910, Under the Auspices of the Joseph Fels Fund Commission, Volume 1]</ref>
    
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