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Ernest Howard Crosby

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Ernest Howard Crosby

Ernest Howard Crosby (18561907) was an American reformer, georgist, and author, the son of Presbyterian minister Howard Crosby. He became an exponent of the theories of Leo Tolstoy.

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  • If judge and jury had to hang the prisoner themselves in cold blood, there would be fewer executions; if we each had to butcher our own meat, there would be a great increase in the number of vegetarians.
    • Tolstoy and His Message (New York: Funk and Wagnall's Company, 1904), p. 53.

Quotes about Crosby

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  • Ernest Crosby, a leading single-taxer and Tolstoyan, who was also a gifted poet and writer.
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