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first man who, having fenced in a piece of land, said 'This is mine', and found
people naïve enough to believe him, that man was the true founder of civil
society. From how many crimes, wars, and murders, from how many horrors and
misfortunes might not any one have saved mankind, by pulling up the stakes, or
filling up the ditch, and crying to his fellows: Beware of listening to this
impostor; you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong
to us all, and the earth itself to nobody.
Admirer of Rousseau as I am - isn't this proclamation a kind of delusional romanticism?
Montesquieu, argued that merely asserting, this is mine, it belong to me can in
no case give rise to a right
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