Riches and Poverty (1910)

Chapter 4, it is obvious that to state that the accumulated wealth of

the United Kingdom probably amounts to £300 per head of the population, or £1,500 per family of five persons, is to mask in averages a great inequality of distribution.

Reverting to the Death Duty records, it is possible, by means of them, to give a true idea of the manner of distribution amongst our people ...