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by step. We do not delude ourselves on that point, 
and never have.” And again: * “ But in thinking of 
details it should he remembered that we cannot get to the 
single tax at one leap, but only by gradual steps, which 
will bring experience to the settlement of details.” 
Neither of them concerned himself with specific ways 
and means. Neither thought of interpreting the state 
ment that all ground rent ought to be taken for public 
use to mean that the whole of it ought to be taken and 
at once. But both, recognising that a right thing may 
be done in a wrong way, insisted that a right way ought 
to be found to do a thing that ought to be done. This 
book, The A B C of Taxation, is a search for that 
right way. 
* Century Magazine, July, 1890, p. 401.