SEPTEMBER 2 — HENRY GEORGE
“Wealth, in itself, is a good, not an evil; but wealth
concentrated in the hands of a few corrupts
on one side and degrades on the other.”
SEPTEMBER 2, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
Nussairis, Asia Minor: FEAST OF ALI.
China: Festival of P’ING AN FU CHU WANG, the Star King.
ALSO ON AUGUST 25 IN HISTORY…
1666 —Great Fire of London begins, will burn for three days.
1766 — James Forten, abolitionist, inventor, born.
1839 — Economic critic Henry George born, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1872 — Mikhail Bakunin expelled from Communist International.
1973 — British medievalist, fantasist, J. R. R.Tolkien dies.