For years Withy had been a Land Nationalist but on reading Progress and Poverty in the early 1880s he became a disciple of the ' Prophet of San Francisco ' .
A Land Nationalist is a follower of Professor Alfred Russel Wallace .
For years Withy had been a Land Nationalist , a follower of Professor Alfred Russel Wallace , but on reading Progress and Poverty in the early 1880s he became a disciple of the ' Prophet of San Francisco ' .