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The inheritance-tax is our first effort at empiric adjustment; but, as already indicated, there is the gravest danger of this being utilized largely for state aggrandizement, which will tend to make the logical and necessary rewards still more remote for our children. In permitting land-ownership we have done a good thing in that we encourage effort, but in divorcing this power from absolutely contingent responsibility in proportion to the population and the area, we have very much overdone a good thing, and to the confusion of all hopeful and normal individual planning we are today face to face with the condition that to those who have largely is given and from those who have less is taken away that which they have. Here is the seed of revolt.