The Complete Works of Henry George, Volume 5Doubleday, Page, 1911 |
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... existing titles to such property are legitimate . Should any one think so , let him look in the chronicles . Violence , fraud , the prerogative of force , the claims of superior cunning - these are the sources to which those titles may ...
... existing titles to such property are legitimate . Should any one think so , let him look in the chronicles . Violence , fraud , the prerogative of force , the claims of superior cunning - these are the sources to which those titles may ...
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... existing arrangements . The change required would simply be a change of landlords . Separate ownerships would merge into the joint - stock ownership of the public . Instead of being in the possession of indi- viduals , the country would ...
... existing arrangements . The change required would simply be a change of landlords . Separate ownerships would merge into the joint - stock ownership of the public . Instead of being in the possession of indi- viduals , the country would ...
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... existing proprietors is a complicated one - one that perhaps cannot be settled in a strictly equitable manner . Had we to deal with the parties who originally robbed the human race of its heritage , we might make short work of the ...
... existing proprietors is a complicated one - one that perhaps cannot be settled in a strictly equitable manner . Had we to deal with the parties who originally robbed the human race of its heritage , we might make short work of the ...
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... existing titles to such property turn out to be invalid ; those founded on reclama- tion inclusive . It appears that not even an equal apportionment of the earth amongst its inhabitants could generate a legitimate pro- prietorship . We ...
... existing titles to such property turn out to be invalid ; those founded on reclama- tion inclusive . It appears that not even an equal apportionment of the earth amongst its inhabitants could generate a legitimate pro- prietorship . We ...
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... existing , can show no original title valid in justice , and such validity cannot be gained either by sale or bequest , or by peace- able possession during any length of time . 4. Nor is there any mode by which land can justly become ...
... existing , can show no original title valid in justice , and such validity cannot be gained either by sale or bequest , or by peace- able possession during any length of time . 4. Nor is there any mode by which land can justly become ...
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Page xx - Though the earth and all inferior creatures be common to all men, yet every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has any right to but himself. The labour of his body, and the work of his hands, we may say, are properly his.
Page 98 - All space doth occupy, all motion guide ; Unchanged through time's all-devastating flight ! Thou only God, — there is no God beside ! Being above all beings ! mighty One, Whom none can comprehend and none explore ; Who fill'st existence with Thyself alone, Embracing all, supporting, ruling o'er; Being whom we call God, and know no more...
Page 3 - has freedom to do all that he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other...
Page 252 - It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism ; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion : for while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no further ; but when it beholdeth the chain of them, confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.
Page xx - The labour of his body and the work of his hands, we may say, are properly his. Whatsoever, then, he removes out of the state that nature hath provided and left it in, he hath mixed his labour with it, and joined to it something that is his own, and thereby makes it his property.
Page 127 - Every man has freedom to do all that he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man...
Page 148 - land " includes not only the face of the earth, but everything under it or over it.
Page 161 - Under the name of aids, the lord claimed stipulated sums from his tenants on the occasion of the knighting of his eldest son, the marriage of his eldest daughter, or his own capture in war.