WALLACE,ALFRED,RUSSEL CAMPAIGN TO NATIONALIZE LAND - HOW DARWIN-PEER LEARNED FROM MILL,JOHN,STUART AND BECAME GEORGE,HENRY ALLY

Alfred Russel Wallace rose to fame with Charles Darwin: They independe ntly found the principle of natural selection. Wallace later focused o n reforming Great Britain's land tenure system, under which a few owne rs had come to control most of the land, while most citizens had littl e or none of their own. In Land Nationalization (1882) Wallace propose d for the state to acquire all land, with limited compensation. The st ate would then lease it by auction, but to actual users only. Wallace saw his kinship with Henry George, and opened doors to help George tou r Britain as a speaker. For years their ideas were linked by friend an d foe, and together had great impact on British politics.