| | [[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 [[William Simon U'Ren]], who 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> | | [[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 [[William Simon U'Ren]], who 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> |
| − | George made significant inroads with Christians and the [[Social Gospel]] movement. [[Walter Rauschenbusch]], one of the largest figures of the early 20th century [[Social Gospel]] movement,<ref name=smucker /> was a strong believer. Father Edward McGlynn, one of the most popular and prominent Catholic priests of his day,<ref>[http://www.masongaffney.org/publications/K18George_McGlynn_and_Leo_XIII.pdf Henry George Dr. Edward McGlynn & Pope Leo XIII]</ref> was excommunicated for his outspoken support of Georgism.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=cAcUCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA486 Making the Irish American: History and Heritage of the Irish in the United States]</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=FK_Z-IusmLoC&pg=PA72 Race, Radicalism, Religion, and Restriction: Immigration in the Pacific Northwest, 1890-1924]</ref> | + | George made significant inroads with Christians and the [[Social Gospel]] movement. [[Walter Rauschenbusch]], one of the largest figures of the early 20th century [[Social Gospel]] movement,<ref name=smucker /> was a strong believer. Father [[Edward McGlynn]], one of the most popular and prominent Catholic priests of his day,<ref>[http://www.masongaffney.org/publications/K18George_McGlynn_and_Leo_XIII.pdf Henry George Dr. Edward McGlynn & Pope Leo XIII]</ref> was excommunicated for his outspoken support of Georgism.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=cAcUCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA486 Making the Irish American: History and Heritage of the Irish in the United States]</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=FK_Z-IusmLoC&pg=PA72 Race, Radicalism, Religion, and Restriction: Immigration in the Pacific Northwest, 1890-1924]</ref> [[Margaret Sanger]], who would have an affair with a member of the Fabian Society, [[H. G. Wells]], was raised to parents who were fans of Henry George. Particularly her father Michael. One of her brothers was even named after him, Henry George McGlynn Higgins. The middle name of McGlynn is a reference to Edward. |