"It is remarkable that jealousy of individual property in land often goes along with very exaggerated doctrines of tribal or national property in land.“


-William Graham Sumner

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It is remarkable that jealousy of individual property in land often goes along with very exaggerated doctrines of tribal or national property in land.

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